Scholarships @ MindSay 
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Its down to 8 days until I return to boarding school. Damn summer went fast! I'm still no where near done with summer reading, I admit I've been putting it off hoping in a way that it would some how ward away the school year. Apparently it didn't work.
I feel bad about this summer though. I'm almost closer to my friends when I'm away at school, I email them weekly. When I'm home, I'm just enjoying relaxing so much I sometimes feel like I forget about my friends. And I admit, I don't feel as close to them as before. I doubt I'll ever admit this to my parents, but boarding school has exposed me to a different world and a much better education than I could have gotten here. Don't get me wrong, its not that I feel I'm "smarter" than my friends, but sometimes I feel a bit more mature and just focused. I'm the only one whose looking at colleges seriously and been considering majors and careers. I'm the only one who reads the newspapers and watches the news.
My friends here are the most geniune people around, but in a way, I feel disconnected to them. Which is odd, since at school I get angry at how intellectual and mature everyone acts. It seems like I can't find the right balance for myself.
On the issue of college, there's a problem. I knew my parents were struggling with boarding school fees, but having been surrounded by said boarding school enviroment, its easy to forget about the economic recession, since most kids at school have anything they want. I shocked everyone by saying my family of 7 had one TV. And I love my parents for giving up all they have for my (and my siblings) educations. People have always said I was the smartest of the five children, and while I don't agree with that, I have a feeling I might be settling by going to my brother's college. But its affordable (with scholarships) and the airfare wouldn't be too bad getting there. And any college education is good, right? I don't want to me ungrateful and tell my parents that I want better than that. And that would be insulting to my brother, who is my idol.
I think I could get into some very good schools, maybe not ivy league but close. But in order to afford any of them, I would need a near full scholarship. I'm going to be working, but my parents don't want me to take out loans and want to pay for most of it, like they have for the other kids. But it feels like kind of a waste for them to have sent me away for a better education just to get into a school I could have got into with an education here.
PS: Can I point out that none of my friends here have considered any of these issues?
-Gabby
Hey Guys!
It feels like it has been weeks since my last update!
How are you all doing?
So. 11 days til prom!
Thank you maddy for finally taking Michael to get his tux.
Hmm...So.
I think I may go watch Angela run in track at five ish...I also need to get some razor blades, and some other stuff...I don't remember.
I am playing golf next year. How exciting!
Wahaha!
I've only ever played putt-putt, but if you are halfway decent,and are a girl, you can get some really good scholarships. There were about 5000 scholarships in the U.S. for girls golf that went unfilled.
Hopefully I can pick up a couple of those. : D
I need to talk to prom date tom soon. He probably has a track meet tonight, so I will probably call tomorrow.I need to buy tickets, and decide where we are going to go eat before, if we are at all. I really could care less if we went out to eat.
Well, I am gonna go outside. It is GORGEOUS out!
Ciao,
Mariah
In other news, I have $70 to my name right now, and that's only because I worked over break. If I hadn't worked (like I'd been planning) I would officially be in the negative integers now as far as cash flow is concerned. I've been thinking about things lately and I've realized that I have to get a job next semester. It doesn't have to be as involved as transferring the the Wegmans in Johnson City; I think I might be eligible for work study next year, and if I am I'm going to get a job in the library or something. If not, I'll find something. They've got a recruitment page on Binghamton's website. Since I'm not being productive otherwise, I'll swing over there tonight and have a look.
The loan I have to take out next semester is going to be ridiculously large. I'll have to sit down this summer and try to calculate how much my bill will be, based on this semester alone. This semester's tuition was about $8500-$9000 and FAFSA covered about half, so if I take out $20,000 I should be set. Whatever I have left over can carry into junior year. That's going to be a bitch to pay for... that's the year I want to study abroad in Ireland. I'll probably have to take out the maximum amount on my loan to pay for airfare, tuition, and other shit. Common sense would tell me to stay here because it's cheaper, but I want to go so badly. I want to go see a little bit of the world while I'm still young and able. Once I graduate from college, I definitely won't be able to travel for a long, long time.
I hate money. I should just move to Europe and go to school there. Their college tuition is disgustingly cheap. Bastards. Maybe I'll just stay in Ireland if I like it enough.
I fucking wish...
Last night my 17yo daughter and I went to the Washington Post Music and Dance awards show at The Warner Theatre in Washington DC. The newspaper sponsors a competition for high school juniors and awards 12 of the 2500 who apply with a nice little scholarship for college.
Approximately 250 are named "finalists" (including my daughter who is a dancer) and invited to perform at this event. Many of the performers were also "scholarship winners" but really, all the kids are winners as they get acknowledged for their years of hard work -- the finalists represent the top 10 percent of the regional kids who apply.
I was blown away at the talent represented on that stage last night - and all by young adults - none of whom were over 18 years old. Classical & jazz pianists, strings, opera singers, vocalists, dancers (modern and classical ballet) and the most amazing saxophone player I've EVER seen/heard in my entire life to date.
The Post newspaper puts a competent producer in charge of the awards show, and they round up an impressive cadre of judges who seemed to pick the best of the best without any partiality or politics. And they get corporate sponsors to foot the bills for the tuition checks. The Post is generally a little to far to the left for my personal choice, in terms of editorial bent, but this project is first rate and I give them all the credit they deserve for establishing a quality program that benefits the youth of my area. Woot!
Howdy Howdy all!
Alright alright Myclette so you were right! I did indeed do well this semester. I have a 4.0 ya'll and believe me...ya girl scrounged for that all the way...LOL! I called Myclette in hysterics (well not really but I was nervous) about my grades! We didnt get them until Today at Noon and I was at work from 9am to 4:30pm and didnt get home until 5:30pm so I spent the whole friggin day stewing and freaking about what my grades might look like! Anyway they were Fantastic and I am so grateful that I could jump up and down and do a hand stand and moonwalk and....well you get the message. Okay ya'll I am officially back on the block and will start lurking about on your blogs and commenting all willy nilly now that the scare and the crunch is over...Well first I gotta do some laundry but then I will get back to the business of checking yall out...
First things first, ya'll know that the end of the year is upon us and so we should all be thinking about getting our annual physicals and well-woman exams! Go to www.PlannedParenthood.com for locations near you and get some very affordable preventative treatment. If you don't jive with them because of whatever reason then please check with your doctor or local state or city sponsored medical department for affordable exams--YOU TOO FELLAS! The thing with planned parenthood is that they will let you pay whatever you can afford to pay (I have insurance but I still hit them up for services and USE my insurance to pay so that they can use their services for folks who are actually needy). They provide a number of services from parenting classes, gyno exams to prenatal care...okay I will stop the public service announcement right after I say that if you are nervous about going, enlist a friend...if any of you live in Houston I volunteer to go with you! 
and hold your hand during the whole thing (well not DURING). I plan to hightail it there myself at the FIRST of the year, you all do the same please!
Okay onto your financial health! Go to https://www.annualcreditreport.com to recieve your FREE annual credit report through Trans Union, Equifax or Experian. See what is what and be sure to DISPUTE any items that don't jive with your facts! It is free and easy and can be done ALL online!
Enough of this stuff---
Okay so ya'll know about the fun birthday times that I had, right? Well here are some fantastic photos of said goodtimes!
I got a buncha cool stuff including A ship that Myclette got me along with some yummy Happy Bunny Lip Gloss! I can't post a pic of the ship because for some reason my camera wont take a pic of it that is not crazy blurred out...the sails are stark white and with or without the flash it is just a big white blurr! Anyway I collect ships and I ALWAYS want one for any occassion! So thanks Myclette you're the keenest! Now Torridgirl also got me something fun and fancy! This tee--which aint nuthing but the truth-- and this cd that has Indian music infused with hip-hop beats! It is off the chain!
Okay so once again my friend T from NYC came down for the holiday and my birthday (or so I like to think) and we had a blast! I drank but not as much as I Could have, and everyone was thankful for that! HA!
Then there was the Amaretto Sour, the Midori sour and the blowjob 
Hail, Hail the gangs all here! Its T, environgirl (that's me ya'll), Torridgirl , and the one and only Cocoa Goddess--Myclette ....T's cousin Gerald is snapping the photo, he was great as well but I didnt get a photo of him like I thought I did!
And by the end of the night, you can see that my headband from the photo above is conspicuously absent as is my sobriety! My tee reads "I'm kind of a big deal, and it was a gift from the roomies! Birthdays are Fun ya'll! 
Okay that is all for now, how about some poetry...here goes...(I haven't forgotten about you doll....who could?)
I, Made Of Stone
Venturing outside so nonchalant, I smile
Inhaling deeply of the breeze
When it strikes me
This air is pleasant but unremarkable, less than delicious.
Just then, from down the street
Comes the squeal of an axle
As a digging machine maneuvers, unseen
And for a split-second it is the cry of a seagull
And the ebbing, flowing traffic, the tide.
I, born of the city, made of stone (so it seems, at times)
I, flourishing in fields of concrete and forests of steel
With no warning, discomfort reaches for me
My habitat turns hollow and gray
Under sunlight thin as a cloth too often washed.
I crave the wild wind, the growing green and boundless blue.
To walk an unmarked path
(Not smoothed for celebrity-endorsed shoes)
To seat myself on a non-ergonomic patch of terrain
To watch clouds that never knew the sly touch of Adobe.
Great. Next I'll be eating hummus and burning patchouli oil.--Jax Marie Miller
Goddess Bless
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