Scholarships

One of the more frustrating things that I've experienced in my life so far (other than trying to beat Uncharted 2 on Crushing and having a test scheduled for every single bloody week) is the struggle to receive scholarships.

Now I'm told I'm a relatively smart guy so one would think it would be easy to win something right?
So far the only stuff I've gotten are entrance scholarships, not that I'm complaining...they're very nice and everything but it's exclusive to that university.
Supposing I attend a university that gave me an entrance scholarship. And now suppose after 1 semester, I hate the university that offers me the scholarship and I want to transfer. I'm in a rut basically because I'd be abandoning whatever I won there to go to a different university where I might not have anything available to win.

Adults (especially my parents) make scholarships sound easy to get. Like people just carelessly leave piles of cash lying on the side of the road ready to be claimed...which is a load of horsesht. I don't know if scholarships changed since they were in school or something but most scholarships don't involve signing up and receiving a nice torrent of cash.
You have to work for the bloody things. You have to provide essays, paragraphs, references, resumes, cover letters, transcripts, a portion of your soul, lamb's blood and goat hearts. It's ridiculous how much work goes into "free money".

I don't have alot of time to work on scholarship essays because I'm a pretty busy guy. So I either have to sacrifice time that can be spent on schoolwork to write essays for scholarships (and then my grades won't be up to snuff (EGAD I dropped 1%!) and then I won't be eligble for w/e scholarship I'm applying for) or I can just go about my usual schedule and go into bankruptcy in post-secondary.

I understand that the people who are giving out scholarships wants to make sure that their money goes to a suitable winner but I mean COME ON!
It's probably easier to break into Fort Knox and fund your education with stolen gold bars or something...

It doesn't help when everyone and their mom are applying for a limited amount of scholarships, supply and demand here folks...

Rant over for now...

30 Hour Famine

I've recently taken part in an event called the 30 Hour Famine sponsored by World Vision.
Basically, it's a fundraiser and an awareness-raiser where you starve yourself for 30 hours (hence the name) for programs that run in the Third World.

The 4 programs are:
-Food
-Water
-Education
-Safety

One of my friends organized the event so it would take place at the school and we`d sleep over and play games and bands would come and play for us
Since it`s my last year of high school, I thought it would be a cool thing to do so I signed up.
Starving for 30 hours actually isn`t as big as a deal as everything thinks, it`s not too bad either. But according to one of my friends, I don`t eat so it doesn`t affect me anyway (which isn`t entirely true, I eat alot, just slowly...). You`re allowed clear liquids so I promptly drank twice my body weight in fluids so I wasn`t feeling particularly hungry.

I thought this was a good cause to do and it isn't caught up in controversy either like Invisible Children (what with dodgy financial records and one of the co-founders caught publicly doing his thing and another co-founder on a youtube video drunk, talking about pocketing $10 million bucks)
But the thing is I didn't really get a good idea of how widespread this event is, I kinda felt like it was isolated to the group of people who stayed at the school was doing it even though we saw 4 videos that showed how large the event had become, featuring celebrities and other kids.

So I`ll just run down all the stuff that happened:
-Presentation on the 30 Hour Famine
-games in the gym (involving icebreakers which kinda got awkward after a bit, but Ì`m in Key Club, awkward icebreakers are practically built in when you go and meet the other Key Clubbers)
-Bands (Oh Hello, Felicity and Fintan, Leisure Suit (best local band ever) and Aivia)
-Sardines/Bang
-Movies
-Sleep
-EAT

My favourite local band, Leisure Suit came which is awesome, I went fanboy and screamed to my heart's content. That's right I screamed...like a 5 year old girl...not going to hide it
They just make the most unique sounding music ever and it's so chill
I just want to lie back, relax and forget all my worries and stresses
I'll just casually toss the link to their bandcamp here:
http://leisuresuit.bandcamp.com/album/leisure-suit-ep

But overall, I had an amazing time
Something that I won't forget for awhile

P.S. that was alot of writing but i've been putting this off for awhile so w/e
P.P.S. the hiding spot that I picked for sardines looked perfect for 1 person but after 5, it got iffy, not going to lie

First Post...ever

So this is my first post on my first blog.

This blog has been inspired by 3 other people who have blogs so I guess I should thank them.
Big props to:
Genevieve, Robert and Graeme for having blogs that were amazing enough to inspire me to make my own blog...not that anyone is going to read this

So this blog will be a place where I will post my thoughts, opinions and events in life when they happen to me, whether they're hilarious or incredibly mind-numbingly boring.

And here are my friend's blogs:
Genevieve's blog:
http://genevieve-luyt.blogspot.ca/

Graeme's blog:
http://hypnofish.blogspot.ca/