#How To Get College Scholarship
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Allow me, if you will, a moment to go absolutely rabid over your blog and everything that goes on here. I’ve always loved history but the USA hardly likes teaching anything that isn’t American History. I’ve forgotten how much I love WORLD history, specifically the rise and fall of empires.
I’ve been smothering myself in your posts and I love it ALL. JC, Pompey, Crassus, Sulla, Octavian, Antony, Cassius, and Brutus. Wow what a mood. You don’t miss on your references or your modern AU’s and I’m over here like- I’m trying to buy whatever web comic you put out, book you write, etc.
Also, if you’d be so kind to list some material with like themes to start breaking into these topics. Preferably materials in English or translated materials.
HELL YEAH LET'S GO
if you really want to start on the ground floor for breaking into something, I'd recommend my personal favorite approach which is picking the figure that's most interesting to you, reading through plutarch's biography on them (free! online! in english!) and then putting their name through a jstor search and reading whatever sounds fun.
other than that, the primary theme I've been wandering around in lately, so these are the materials I've been really enjoyed related to that:
The Deaths of the Republic: Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, Brian Walters
The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide, Paul Plass
Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War, Shadi Bartsch
Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban
Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson
I also have a comparatives tag where I play connect the dots with texts that made my brain go brrr
#also thank u 💓#ive been obsessed with history and historical non fiction since i was like. five. and my dad noticed that i liked watching documentaries#on pbs lmao#i lucked out: all of my history teachers through highschool were FANTASTIC but my sister's grasp on history#(w/ different teachers) is way worse and she was like. all honors and got a wicked scholarship to a very nice college#idk where im going with that. something about how history is taught with such inconsistency makes me feel :|#i feel passionately abt the subject so i want other people to love it too aughghhhhh#and the way history is taught in schools unless you get a good teacher. is not conducive to this. its a TRAGEDY#thinking about how my best favorite man mabini. ppl not knowing that polio was what caused paralysis in his legs#back when heneral luna came out. (head in hands)#like its good to learn! that was a learning moment for people! but also @ the education department: im fucking coming for you.#IM GETTING OFF TRACK thank u for sending this anon this ask made me really happy to read 🥺🥰💕💕💖💞#i hope you're having a nice day!#ask tag
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anyone else up trying not to think too hard about the future or is it just me haha
#friday chats#there's just so many THINGS y'all#why the fuck is college so expensive. why the fuck is the college i want to go to so much MORE expensive#will the scholarships i applied to email me back? so far the answer is no#and i'm worried that NONE of the scholarships i have applied to/am currently applying to will do so#and then i'll have to go with my second choice and i really don't wanna go there bc it's where my parents want me to go#and it's all so much to think about. on top of my current schoolwork no less#not to mention i'll have to get used to living on my own and being far away from my friends and that's a WHOLE 'nother thing#and i just wanna lay facedown on the floor and cry a bit about it yknow?#i know some of you are out of college/currently in college how did/do y'all manage#genuine question btw please help#i am very overwhelmed
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i applied for a $13000 a year scholarship and got it btw. if you even care
#quil's unholy underworld#yay! it thought I'd get it but wasn't sure#I have not processed it nor do I have any idea how to#but! I applied for it a few months ago and got the notif today!#and I have submitted the form to accept it#it's nerve wracking because of all the like 'you gotta do this to maintain your scholarship you aren't allowed to take#classes at other branches and if you go to another institution this will be canceled'#but like. i know it just seems intimidating and it's fine#and what am I gonna do? /not/ accept the 13 grand a year scholarship?#that I submitted like one day before the deadline?#anyway i got like two other college things to submit as well but one isn't due until the 15th and the other isn't due until...#actually idk when it's due#and oh there's a third thing! that's due may 1st but I gotta make a phone call maybe so I'm putting it off#but anyway. got a scholarship :)
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It is so funny to me that not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES I have just started rambling about my autistic special interest and people have responded with job offers/college scholarships
Apparently they "like the passion I have for my work"
#the first guy offered me an internship#the second guy offered me a scholarship on the condition i went to a specific college to research my special interest#the third person offered me a place as a guest speaker on a panel#how did i get here#im just a 17 who likes to ramble about ancient history and research#true story#autism#actually autistic#autistic things
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i hate being stressed about like. things that are actually stressful. normally i could be like "all is well 😌it will be ok no matter what" or whatever but i genuinely cant do that here. if i dont get this sorted out im genuinely fucked
#i dont know how much ive said here but im going to try and be as vague as possible so i dont like. accidentally dox myself or w/e#but anyways i got a VERY GOOD tuition scholarship outside of my college. i go to one of the cheaper schools in the area i go to school in#so it covers all of it#awesome right?#SHOULD BE. if my college didnt fucking DELETE the form somehow. fucking hello.#the scholarship emailed them. and then they DELETED IT.#and ON TOP OF THAT!#i had extra bullshit fees unpaid i had no idea about.#so i was almost not even cleared for move in.#that got fixed. but now i have to call fifty billion people and fix this problem#so i can. go to school and not go into debt#plus. ok. the scholarships i get from school are genuinely pretty good. but they split it up b/w room and board and tuition#so i need to see if they can move stuff around somehow bc i shouldnt need the tuition money anymore#and between that money from school. the other scholarships i get from school. the outside scholarships i have.#AND THE ONE THAT WOULD COVER MY TUITION.#i could go to school for basically free and not go into insane debt.#which is awesome. but if i cant get this one thing figured out! i cant!#and i move in IN TWO WEEKS. SO I HAVE NOT THAT LONG TO FIX THIS. YAYY#anyways fucking wish me luck im going to be calling a lot of people tomorrow. and next week.#thank u for the complaining sesh tumblr dot com blog that is my diary.#it should be ok it should work out but jesus christ its going to be bad if it doesnt.#personal
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i'm gonna have a phone call in two hours and i Don't Want To
#melonposting#it's about scholarship money. the state was like 'you're smart and we like you so here's a scholarship'#which is nice and all but i have to figure out how to get that connected to my college financial account#waaaugh
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MCFLY JULY ‘24 — out in the desert.
Martin remembers, with great clarity, the first time Citizen Brown took him to the “satellite office.”
He still hadn’t quite gotten over the novelty of being in a car– as his assistant, he’d accompanied Citizen Brown on some of his rounds, of course, but he’d never been in one for this long– and he’d never been outside the walls of Hill Valley before. Almost as soon as they were out on the open road– and it was really open– he remembered his shoulders falling and taking in the deepest, biggest breath of the fresh air, the free air, he could.
Then he’d remembered he was in Citizen Brown’s car– sitting next to him!– but when he looked back, an apology at the ready, Citizen Brown had just given him a smile.
“Just wait,” he’d assured, in that low, level tone of his, but with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, “you haven’t seen the best part.”
And he’d been right. The desert was breathtaking.
He’d never realized there were so many stars or noticed how rich the smell of sun and earth and life really was. The thunderstorms were electrifying and awe-inspiring, the days were long and hazy while nights were crisp and bright, and he could rest without needing to look over his shoulder, sleep without feeling eyes glaring at him from a fuzzy CRT screen, monitoring every move.
It was perfect, especially now that they were hiding his guitar here, too.
Out here, he could understand why Dave and Linda had left and never looked back, never came back for him in the three long years they’d been gone. If he and Citizen Brown didn’t have to go back– if Citizen Strickland wouldn’t come looking for them and spoil everything– Martin doesn’t think he would, either.
He smiles as he watches Doctor Brown’s reaction to seeing the secret lab, greeting all the inventions and tools like long lost friends. Evening is settling in and there’s a chill in the air, but Martin doesn’t mind; he just draws his Junior Brown Brigade letterman jacket tighter around himself and lets the warmth of the moment take care of the rest.
When Doctor Brown seems to settle into a familiar rhythm, looking over Citizen Brown’s notes and muttering to himself, hand fisted into his hair, Martin feels the familiar itch in his fingers as he looks at his guitar in the corner.
He feels the bounce in his toes, the melody unfurling in his head, the beat filling his chest and threatening to burst out any way it can if he doesn’t do something about it soon. He curls his hands into loose fists, flexing them in an attempt to be still and unobtrusive as he weighs his options.
“Sir– I mean, Doctor Brown?” He grasps his left wrist behind his back, squeezing. “Would it, uh… Would it be okay if I practiced…?”
Doctor Brown swivels around in his chair, surprised. Almost imperceptibly, as the situation registers, his jaw tightens, and Martin freezes, before the scientist’s expression morphs into one of concern and tenderness.
“You don’t have to ask my permission, Marty,” he returns, kindly, “Where I’m from, you play your music all the time! It helps both of us think. Anyway, I could do with something with a little life in it after that hellish, egotistical panopticon we’ve just escaped from.”
“Something with a little life in it,” Martin hums, smiling as just the right song pops into his head. “Alright. I got it.”
He grabs the guitar, flicking the amp on, tapping his foot in time before beginning a bouncy riff, fingers strumming the strings as if it’s second nature. As his hand shifts up and down the fingerboard, something inside him knits back together.
“Better stop dreamin’ of the quiet life, ‘cause it’s the one we’ll never know,”
Before he can stop himself, he’s singing quietly, the lyrics spilling out of him.
“And quit runnin’ for the runaway bus ‘cause those rosy days are few, and…”
The chords become more confident, his hand remembering a dance he’d thought he’d forgotten the steps to.
“Stop apologizing for the things you’ve never done,” Proud and more than a little taken aback as his voice soars, he grins at Doctor Brown, who, to his amazement, grins back, tapping his foot along to the beat.
“‘Cause time is short and life is cruel and it’s up to us to change
This town called Malice!”
Martin imagines his music, now free, filling the lab, filling the desert, the notes reaching all the way up to the thousands of stars in their sky and the millions and billions beyond.
#drabble tbt.#mcflyjuly#mcfly july ‘24.#brave new world [verse.]#HNNNNNNNNNNNN MARTIN MY DARLING... HOW I'VE MISSED YOU...#orwell valley / hillwell valley is a shitshow but he's the very bestest boy!!!#red and i came up with this idea where instead of the game where it's normal marty meets cb... it's normal doc meets martin...#which is so good but also so sad bc martin needs about thirty thousand hugs his parents are Worse than tp#(though like. not as bad as hell valley but it's pretty close. it's a dystopian surveillance state as opposed to mobocracy.)#and martin's made himself (and the game says this) this overachiever wunderkind just to get by bc he doesn't have anything or anyone else#like straight as. full ride college scholarship. president of the junior brown brigade. he has awards. he has Everything but also Nothing#so he deserves a little happiness#song is ofc town called malice which fits this au Very well <3#don't worry doc and martin are gonna fix things#queue. this is heavy.
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Me when I can't get state scholarships bc I was homeschooled 👍
#average homeschool L#i dont know why its legal to homeschool your kids#and i dont know why my mom still defends it when i bring up how its affected and still affecting me to this day#I hope she is at least willing to pay for some of my college if im not able to get these scholarships bc of her decision#to not send me to public school even when i asked her to#i dont understand why that matters anyway like I'm in college now and literally have had a 4.0 gpa the last two semesters
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This weekend I’m taking my mom out for brunch so I can wind down from this first full week of school and talk about college and scholarships and stuff. I also think I could benefit from a blooming onion and some rolls with cinnamon butter (guilty pleasure) bc damn i just started and senior year is already kicking my ass.-🧃
OOOOOOO what's a blooming onion BUT ROLLS WITH CINNAMON BUTTER SOUND SO GOOD YOU DESERVE THEM senior year is the fucking worst man, brace yourself (all i'm saying is. spring semester is dogshit. i cried more times in my senior year of spring semester than i've ever cried in my life)
#💜.answers#🧃.anon!!!#no but honestly you seem like a really hard worker so i have no doubt you're going to get into all your colleges :D#also just some advice: apply to every single scholarship even if you think you won't be able to make it#that's how i won one and i didn't expect it tbh#but yes indulge in guilty pleasures in senior year man bc its so hard#and you DESERVE those little presents for yourself !!! take care of yourself !!!
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finally set up my curtains that I've put off for years.... bought a dry-erase calendar that I color-coded.... bought hair/skin care... drank more than one cup of water
#I've been in a slump since may (all of the years of academic and social stress) and haven’t really been living ny life#I quit my job (it was getting pretty bad) and stopped talking to my friends (some who deserved it and some who didn't)#and I've pretty much been decaying in my house and doing stuff with my family#for the past month and a half#but today I talked to a good friend of mine and she is hanging out with me on wednesday#I put up my college decorations including a lot of wall art and these really pretty sage green curtains#and I drank A Lot of water#idk I'm starting to feel better the closer I get to going to college (exactly two months after today!)#I also am feeling myself change - like I can't tell if it's perspective or attitude - but I can feel myself just... chilling out?#I'm kind of uptight but I'm feeling myself relax the more I prepare for college (which may seem contradictory)#I finally accepted my grants/scholarships (finances have been a HUGE stressor)#and I spent about an hour familarizing myself with the school's database so I know where to go and what to do etc etc#I've procrastinated so much in my life that I didn’t realize how important scheduling and structure is to me#anyways I'm doing better. I'm going to be okay#kiya's ranting hours
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im gonna practically b a senior a week from now holy fuck
#i am NOT prepared#taking 2-3 ap classes next school year#AND i have college and scholarship applications to do at the beginning of the year and i have no clue how they work#and the year is gonna go by real quick and next thing i know im starting college what the fuck#i just need to get through finals week and then i have summer break#wait im gonna hve summer assignments fuuuuuuuuuu
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I fucking hate the process of FAFSA and scholarship applications. It's so fucking complicated for no reason. They're making it so impossible. I'm legit considering giving up on my dreams and wasting all the opportunities my trade school gave me because of this shit. If this gets fucked up for me it's gonna drain all the money from my abusive mother's account and she lives paycheck to paycheck. She can't afford that and I can't afford how she's gonna treat me if that happens. They also emailed her without my permission about the errors even though I told them having contact with her was unsafe??? Anyways, the delays from FAFSA made me miss the deadline for scholarship applications so I'm gonna have to wait a year and I might have to apply for the college again and hope they accept me again and redo yet another FAFSA for like the 3rd time. which is def gonna make my mom pissed at me. They're tryna get me killed I swear. All for what? So I can go "weee forensic science~!" Starting to feel not worth it. Fuck college tbh. I'm trying so hard not to give up. They keep saying there's a mistake on my application on the same part and I keep resubmitting it because there's no mistakes and the fact that I haven't been able to get my FAFSA in has led to me running out of time on some scholarship applications that required information from The returned FAFSA in order to submit but had a time limit and I've been working with my career and college counselor on this and we haven't been able to figure out what to do and it's pissing my mom off and I'm just scared. I never even put her name of the stuff and I told them contacting her was dangerous to me and they still did it. They don't realize how dangerous this actually is for me because being in contact with my mom can and often does lead to me being suicidal but I don't really have control over anything right now so I'm just kind of stuck. I just don't think I was meant to be a human because I don't have the skill set and the mental capacity for this basic everyday shit that every other human goes through and it just feels really pathetic. She was right. I'm never going to fucking be able to be an adult because I can't handle regular shit like this and I don't think I ever will be able to it's just fucking pathetic. Like how am I going to handle the process of buying my own home it's doing bills and taxes and shit when I can't even handle stuff for that people who are 18 do? This is college stuff this is stuff that teenagers are supposed to be able to know how to do and I'm 20 fucking years old and I can't even figure it out with two parents and a fucking counselor who specializes in helping kids get into college. This is why I fucking hate myself. I ruin everything for myself with my own incompetence and trying to fix it makes it worse.
#college#fafsa#college scholarship#losing hope#stress#anxiety#overwhelmed#dreams#mental abuse#emotional abuse#money#i am scared#i just cried and whinee about this for a while hour to nobody thats how pathetic i am lol#tw sui ideation#tw selfhate#vent#tw vent#just getting it off my chest
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we always talk about how claire could have been this or that but we should also mention that the mf is great in gymnastics?? wouldn't be surprised if she was in the track team or something athletic related
#which now makes me wonder if sports was something that could have helped her get a scholarship#idk how it works in the usa but i'm always kinda ?? at the part where chris could afford sending her to college#anyway she gives me cheerleader vibes and would probably be able to do a whole routine even know that she's 44#tbd.
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I may be dumb......but like. college athletes get paid by the school to play for the school???? they get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to play on a college team.......and yet teachers and administrative staff don't get paid shit????????
#i mean i assume they get paid from a different fund#but how am I making fucking shit money doing administrative work here and college athletes are getting scholarships that cover their school#AND a shit ton of money for playing in games???
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what they don’t tell you about scholarship season is how gross it feels to look at personal tragedy and monetize it
#rsbry’s jam#scholarships#school#university#college#spending three hours on an application and my AGI a bit too high and i get to write in two short sentences how we can’t afford to visit my#drying grandmother but it’s fucking fine i guess#for 1k for one year i just need to sell my fucking soul#but we’re keeping it posi *grits teeth*
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This is so dumb? I’m all for MC realizing that she can’t just be a stick in the mud all throughout college but like… there’s a time and a place
#choices rwb#choices roommates with benefits#choices#choices stories you play#playchoices#you can get your academic/personal development shit done and still have fun#it’s def possible bc plenty of people have accomplished that#MC’s really out here tryna be like those people who go absolutely crazy in their first year at college and end up failing out 💀#and yes I realize this is just a scholarship luncheon or whatever but it’s a slippery slope y’all 😐#she was just talking about how she has a scholarship/needs money and to keep her nose clean and now she’s doing this#pitiful#choices app#pixelberry studios#pixelberry
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