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Saturday morning I awoke at 7 a.m. to prep and drive out to my district interview for the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.   I more or less knew what to expect: two interviews, both of about half an hour, and a short break break between.  I was to be grilled by a panel of WASPs.  I [...]

Huffington Post had an article a few months ago about the possible effects of cancelling student loan debt, as opposed to the bailing out of the big wigs and upper class banking system.  Granted it’s 6 months old, but you can read that article here. I’m probably as biased an opinion as you could get–I’m [...]

Apparently, I am worth at least bringing back for a second look.  I say this because my Rotary district has decided to bring me in for an interview as a finalist for the scholarship they will award for the year 2010-2011.  Realistically, I received a phone call last week, I believe on Tuesday, from the [...]

You see, the funny thing about that title is its structural ambiguity. Am I talking about a call on a rotary phone? Or am I talking about the Rotary club making a phone call? In fact, it is the latter. The former President of the local Rotary Club emailed me Monday, to which I responded, [...]

Indeed, it has been a little while since I last updated.  Luckily, the busy season of grad school something-or-others and nice weather seem mutually exclusive.  This is a good thing.  Rather than having to spend an inordinate amount of time poring over paperwork and details, I get to golf and do summer-y things. Aside from [...]

The New York Times has an article up today that explains the ins and outs of student loans, entitled “In Grim Job Market, Student Loans Are a Costly Burden“.  This topic is of great interest to someone like me–I won’t be receiving much money, if any, to attend graduate schools I’ve applied to.  My best [...]

In an ocean of endless possibilities, the disappointments seem to wash ashore.  At least, that’s how things appear in my little world in recent times. Today, I got my financial aid info back from Northwestern.  Needless to say, I was a little let down.  I knew I was out of the running already for the [...]

I’m going to toss up a couple of posts here today; each should include the prompts and how I responded to them for the schools I applied to.  To give background: generally, I try to sound different in my essay writing.  Thus far in my life, it’s been fairly successful.  I managed to wrangle enough [...]

Actually, NU told applicants they’d get a decision by midnight, 3/1…which I was one of those people who thought that meant Saturday going into Sunday, 3/1, not 11:59 Sunday.  I emailed them that afternoon, in a very polite freak-out about where my admissions decision was and why it wasn’t blaring on my screen at 00:00 [...]

So, now you may ask, what schools has our host applied to?  Well, referencing the whole “go big or go home” mantra, I went big.  I applied to only four schools: Columbia, Northwestern, NYU, and Missouri.  I visited all but Missouri–they were sort of my backup school, despite possibly being the best Journalism school out [...]