Scholarships: the things nobody wants to apply for but everybody wants. I filled out so many scholarships my senior year it made my head spin, but when you go to an expensive college and have your mom nagging at you to fill them out, there's no avoiding them. Here is my inner monologue when filling out dreaded scholarship applications.
Do I have to write this? Is it really worth it? I mean it's only $500... Yes, yes I have to write this. Okay, here we go.
Time to fill out some generic information about myself, always fun. Name, address, hobbies, blah, blah, blah. Wait a minute, what are my hobbies? Do I even have hobbies? Maybe I should just write down what I actually spend my free time doing like texting, spending time on the Internet, and watching TV. No, no they don't want that.... What am I supposed to say? I'll just make something up, yeah that sounds good.
First essay question: What are your career goals and how will you work towards achieving them?
Career goals? What if I don't have any yet? I just switched majors, I don't even know much about my major yet, let alone know what I want as my career. What do I say? Oh no, oh no, oh no. Why is it this hard?
Second essay question: What are your life goals?
I don't know what I want to do with my life yet, let alone have specific goals. Can I pass on this question too? That would be great.
Oh no, now there's weird, specific questions about the scholarship itself. Okay, I guess I can figure out something to write about this. Ugh, why do I always have writer's block? Is it this hard for everybody else? I hope so.
Okay, now who came up with this essay topic? "Write about a time when you experienced a hardship in your life and explain how you overcame it." A hardship in my life? I'm only 18, how hard can my life be? Oh great, now whatever I say is going to sound stupid and childish. Maybe I'll write about the time I dropped my ice cream cone on the ground as a child..that was pretty traumatizing...
They want me to have around 250 words on each essay and I only have 100. Why do they want so many words? Do they actually enjoy sitting there and reading us spout off nonsense? I doubt it. Maybe they just enjoy seeing us struggle through this. Yeah, I bet that's it.
Now I have to provide proof of enrollment and send them my transcript. Can't they just take my word for it? Why do I even have to show them that I'm enrolled in college anyway? Like I'd be lying about that. Fine, whatever.
And I'm finally finished! Not like they'll actually give it to me anyway, but hey I tried. On to the next one.