Newsletter Highlights:
1.) $Mad Chedda$- Their may be a scholarship with your name on it. What to know more? Keep scrolling!
2.) How High Are You? - Is school ranking really all that important? An interesting editorial in the New York Times discusses this.
3.) Apps are Rad- 5 Apps that every college student should have in their lives.
4.) Reading Rainbow Fights Back!- Former host of Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton, speaks about Mitt Romeny cutting PBS.
5.) DIY Room Decor- After a long day of school and other activites the last thing you want to come home to is a dorm room with white walls. Find out how to make your dorm room feel like home.
5.) DIY Room Decor- After a long day of school and other activites the last thing you want to come home to is a dorm room with white walls. Find out how to make your dorm room feel like home.
$Mad Chedda$
While school is in full swing, that does not mean that we as college students should give up on getting scholarships. Recently I have received from Jody a list of scholarships that may interest some of you. Look over these scholarships and apply! You can never go wrong with having too many scholarships. Information and links to these scholarships are below:
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Migrant
For first generation
http://bit.ly/UpolPK
Initial Applications are accepted Aug - Oct 31 of the senior year in high school.
Hispanic
http://bit.ly/T6v2PY
Scholarships for black students
For African-Americans (could include Haitian-Americans)
For women
For women in STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math)
Scholarships for Hispanic Medical, Dental, Pharmacy and Nursing Students
How High Are You?
When it comes to colleges and universities what was the first thing you looked at? Was it academics? The sports? In this editorial in the New York Times Joe Nocera gives his 2 cents about this and what people should really consider when choosing the "best" college. Do you agree? Disagree?Apps Are Rad: 5 Apps the every college student should have in their lives.
Angry Brids, Instagram, and Twitter. These apps seem to make our world go round. But who would've thought that apps could do more than just kill time. CollegeNews.com talks about the 5 apps that they think are the most important for college students.
Reading Rainbow Fights Back!
As a kid Reading Rainbow never really gave me the sense that they had such fire in them. But after viewing this video of the former host, LeVar Burton, firing right back at Romney about cutting PBS I have a new found respect. Four for you LeVar Burton. You go LeVar Burton!
DIY Dorm Decor:
If only I knew about some of this stuff when I was a Freshman. CollegeGloss.com has taken it upon themselves to help us broke college kids into making our dorm rooms look a little less like an asylum and make it feel more like home.
As always, feel free to contact Jody Foege or Mary Castro regarding this blog.
Mary Castro
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or
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Jody Foege
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