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Scholarship-a-phobia

by codyeveritt

I've been sitting at my computer for so long I can't count. Searching for scholarship applications the tension beginning to mount. Is this how a drug addict feels when they've got to have a fix I'd do anything to get these scholarships...but what's the trick? Family income, before and after, awards along the way, One big pot of rhyming acronyms - SAT, ACT, and GPA's! I'm truly All-American, the more I find the more I want Now come on printer, don't mess up on me now...and what's wrong with the FONT? Deadlines, headlines, and facts galore It must look good...I have to add more! STOP......ENOUGH.... I'm sending these and pray that they'll select me PLEASE!
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RebeccaYSPerez
<p>Ahhhhh, yes the dreaded time of going from scholarship to scholarship trying to acquire anything you can get to help you get through college all the more seamlessly... It's something I'm not looking forward to ever having to do again in my life. Your poem was wittily funny and sadly all so very true. I enjoyed reading it.</p><p>Besides how much I enjoyed your poem I do want to share a reminder with you. Even if you don't get these scholarships,&nbsp;which I'm hoping you are (<em>All fingers crossed</em>), I hope you remember that if you do not get them it says nothing about who you are, and absolutely nothing on your worth. You are worth everything you set your mind to, and everything you dream of. So, no matter what happens I want you to remember that.</p><p>Good luck,<br>Rebecca&nbsp;</p>

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