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Title: How to pay for college?
Post by: Thing on January 10, 2004, 05:10 PM
Here is an interesting article on how to acquire some extra funds to help pay for your college education.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/college/?article=StrangeScholarships
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: warz on January 10, 2004, 05:18 PM
Quote7. So maybe Klingon doesn't count as a foreign language, but if you plan to study it at college (the Klingon language, that is), you can enter the Kor Memorial Scholarship given by the Klingon Language Institute. Familiarity with Klingon not required. Go to http://www.kli.org/scholarship/ for details.

haha?
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Hitmen on January 10, 2004, 06:20 PM
Pfft, you can get scholorships for crap like that, and I'm going to have to work my ass off to pay for even a crappy college.
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: iago on January 10, 2004, 07:08 PM
Yeah, I work nearly full time during school to pay for mine.

Well, not anymore, I'm not planning on working at all next term :D
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Denial on January 10, 2004, 07:18 PM
you can get them for mostly anything. Being left handed your father or grandfather fighting in the war being male you name it they got it
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: iago on January 10, 2004, 09:43 PM
Quote from: Denial on January 10, 2004, 07:18 PM
you can get them for mostly anything. Being left handed your father or grandfather fighting in the war being male you name it they got it

Note quite, there's exactly one type of person that doesn't get one for anything: a white average male with no physical disabilities.
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: dxoigmn on January 11, 2004, 11:20 AM
Quote from: iago on January 10, 2004, 09:43 PM
Quote from: Denial on January 10, 2004, 07:18 PM
you can get them for mostly anything. Being left handed your father or grandfather fighting in the war being male you name it they got it

Note quite, there's exactly one type of person that doesn't get one for anything: a white average male with no physical disabilities.

Keyword being average.
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Denial on January 11, 2004, 04:44 PM
Quote from: iago on January 10, 2004, 09:43 PM


Note quite, there's exactly one type of person that doesn't get one for anything: a white average male with no physical disabilities.

Not true in america atleast. He can join the army right out of highschool usually the army people will show up at graduation with a big check for joining the army and such like 250k or 100k and all you need to be is average male or female to get this
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: iago on January 11, 2004, 06:17 PM
Quote from: Denial on January 11, 2004, 04:44 PM
Quote from: iago on January 10, 2004, 09:43 PM


Note quite, there's exactly one type of person that doesn't get one for anything: a white average male with no physical disabilities.

Not true in america atleast. He can join the army right out of highschool usually the army people will show up at graduation with a big check for joining the army and such like 250k or 100k and all you need to be is average male or female to get this

an average male or female who is willing to join the army, you mean?
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Mitosis on January 11, 2004, 06:58 PM
I got about 3500 dollars saved up for my college at the moment. I plan on going here http://www.durhamc.on.ca/ for Graphics/Anitmation and Programming. Cant wait for these damn years of grade school to end though. Its going to be quite alot of money for it all, the Animation course is 8000 and the Programming is 4000. All that plus tuition. (spelling). Ohwell, money isnt really an issue.
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Hostile on January 20, 2004, 08:34 PM
Actually you don't even have to join the Reserves or anything just enroll in the ROTC program while going to college and can easily get 1/4 - all of your college payed off for. :p
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Crypticflare on January 20, 2004, 09:03 PM
Keyword Army , My bestfriend enlisted right after his HS graduation, they gave him a 32k dollar check for college, then quite a bit of money for his sign up bonus and such, as to my other buddy that recently just got back from the marine corps, is almost flat ass broke :p
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Naem on January 21, 2004, 06:19 PM
Too bad you don't live in California, iago. We have a program called "Cal Grants" and you can earn up to $10k from that. And there's a scholarship near me that basically gives $4k to anyone within a 25-mile radius of the courthouse (the "Rosenhouse" fund). There are lots of obscure scholarships out there, you just have to keep an eye out.
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: dxoigmn on January 22, 2004, 02:49 PM
Quote from: Naem on January 21, 2004, 06:19 PM
Too bad you don't live in California, iago. We have a program called "Cal Grants" and you can earn up to $10k from that. And there's a scholarship near me that basically gives $4k to anyone within a 25-mile radius of the courthouse (the "Rosenhouse" fund). There are lots of obscure scholarships out there, you just have to keep an eye out.

You have to go to a school in California to get a Cal Grant :(
Title: Re:How to pay for college?
Post by: Tuberload on January 22, 2004, 02:58 PM
Quote from: Crypticflare on January 20, 2004, 09:03 PM
Keyword Army , My bestfriend enlisted right after his HS graduation, they gave him a 32k dollar check for college, then quite a bit of money for his sign up bonus and such, as to my other buddy that recently just got back from the marine corps, is almost flat ass broke :p

Every branch of the military gets the same benefits. You know why? Because they are all controlled by the same government. That is not to say that all the branches will not try and screw you out of college money though... My cousin joined the Army and did not get his college funds because he forgot to sign some papers. It has nothing to do with what branch you join, but has everything to do with how well you cover your ass.

Personally I think you should go through college before you join the military. That way you are guaranteed to get it done before you are thirty, and you can just have the military pay off your student loans. Plus you can go in as an officer.