soulofapoet:
nerdydyke:
ofallmediums:
nerdydyke:
changedsinceyesterday:
socialistictendencies:
emilywithviolethair:
kinsey-x:
whitewhine:
You’re so deprived.
Poor thing. Life must be so hard for you!
okay honestly, i dont care what you guys think, but i have a problem with this. not the status, but the reactions.
You know, some of us haven’t had anything terrible happen to us in life, we’ve had things pretty fair. and because of that, no one pays special attention to us like they do to all these other people, and we’re forced to pay everything ourselves, do everything ourselves, work harder than everyone else for stuff, because we don’t get tha help everyone else gets, and support. How is it our fault if we weren’t born a certain way, or into a certain family, or something terrible didn’t somehow happen to us?
What i think is terrible is that if you don’t have enough money to afford a further education, and all these “terrible” things, or “hard” things haven’t happened to you, you basically have to WISH that they’ll happen just to have someone care about you, help you out for once. I was born into a good family, things have always been fair, but i’m going to have to go into debt to go to college. We have money, food, our family is loved, we’re all society’s standard for normal, and because of this, we don’t have any special reason to get extra help. How is this something we just aren’t allowed to complain about?
I find it very unfair that people that have gone through harder lives get all the special attention and support and love and people backing them up and fighting for them, while the people whose lives haven’t been so bad in those standards get nothing and have to fend for themselves.
What happened to equal rights, eh? You fight for equal rights, yet you get mad when someone who has had a better life complains that things aren’t fair and equal.
This is why I don’t like people.
I’d just like to leave this here. Bolded for emphasis.
This is so hilarious that I really can’t even laugh.
It’s also so sad that I can’t even cry.
I just…can’t.
Actually… she does have a point. Financially speaking, you’re sort of screwed if you can’t get a scholarship. So if you’re just average joe then you’re actually getting screwed over financially in a way.
- Came from a middle class family? You family most likely earns too much for you to REALLY benefit from it.
- Straight? Well there goes any scholarship for sexuality… (Although… oddly, there’s a LOT more scholarships out there for GAY men rather than lesbians… huh.)
- Average grades? Well… you’re not getting any GPA related scholarship.
- Can’t play sports or only average at it? No sports scholarship.
- Average at a musical instrument or what ever other talent you have? Nothing for you.
- Average height? No height based scholarship for you! (Hell… I’m 4’7.5” and I can’t qualify for the Little People’s scholarship because I don’t have dwarfism….)
- Average at your job? Well… your job’s not giving you a scholarship then.
So essentially, unless you’re above average at something, a part of a minority, or had something bad to you… you’re essentially swept under the rug. But then again… that’s life.
You forgot scholarships for volunteering. And volunteering is available for anyone.
But does everyone have the TIME to volunteer? I know I didn’t. In high school I was heavily involved in 3 clubs, running one of them. I also was part of Master Works choir, was working just about every day… sometimes not even getting home until 8:30 or 9:00 to start working on homework, then I’d get to sleep around 11 PM, sometimes 2 AM, then have to wake up at 5:30 so I could make it to my bus stop because the bus came at 6:30 AM. Any day that I didn’t have work or a club event, any free time I had was to catch up on sleep, do homework or babysit my little sister. I BARELY had a social life. I had one friend that I routinely fell asleep against in the morning before classes. Thankfully he didn’t mind.
I agree with the bolded statements. I have good grades, not awesome, so that rules me out for most of the larger scholarships. I’m a transfer student which makes scholarships a rarity in the first place; most scholarships are for incoming freshmen. This has nothing to do with my race or my gender, nothing. It has to do with me wishing I had opportunities to get scholarships and grants to go to school since that’s all I fucking want to do…
In terms of scholarships, it *is* true that there are lots of scholarships based solely on things most people have little control over like race or disability. I’m okay with that, but um, could there be more scholarships to make college accessible to average folks? There are a lot of opportunities for those from underprivileged communities and on the opposite end of the spectrum there are of course numerous ways for the rich to go to school… the middle class folks kind of get fucked since we’re just plain, make just so much money, etc. etc.
I might be missing something here, but why is a scholarship being turned to as a way to solve the issue of education affordability? Aren’t scholarships based on merit, in any case, by definition? Aren’t scholarships competitive by nature; several students applying in hopes they will prove a better-suited recipient over other applicants? Like, you get a scholarship BECAUSE you are above average? Because you are the gay man or black woman or musician that ALSO gets good grades or otherwise displays that you are a good INVESTMENT for the institution
giving AWARDING the scholarship? For example, you could be a middle class white kid that is a piano protege, or a middle class white kid that displays an affinity for medicine, or a middle class white kid that is a natural at applying complex mathetmatical principals. No one gets a scholarship JUST for being gay. No one gets a scholarship JUST for being poor. If they did, wouldn’t a college education be far more common among these demographics? Scholarships are awarded to the best candidates. It’s true, some scholarships are created to help individuals that are part of a marginalized demographic; yes, intended for people that have to overcome things privileged people don’t in order to even consider a university degree as a realistic option (and there is usually little done to ensure scholarships actually go to those who need it most- I won’t go into how privilege plays a huge role in getting these scholarships even within marginalized populations). So what? They still have to demonstrate they are “special” in order to get money over all the other poor, brown, queer, female, religious, old, etc. people that are also applying for the scholarship. You want an award for being average? really? It’s not that you aren’t allowed to complain, I’m just not really sure what you’re complaining about.
I’m not saying that the middle class doesn’t get fucked. I’m not saying college shouldn’t be affordable. I’m saying a scholarship for the average could never happen, by definition. I’m saying I really don’t understand why people are basically insinuating they are oppressed because their averageness doesn’t garner free money; especially when it seems to me that the underlying problem is that the education system has COMMODIFIED KNOWLEDGE. We are led to believe college is the answer to all our financial woes, only to later discover that it is still largely a luxury available only to the wealthy. Or those willing to get into a mountain of debt in their early 20s. Or those select few chosen for scholarships to make up for hundreds of years of institutionalized oppression. College wasn’t even expected of the middle class until recently. Why do you think money should just be handed to you for being average/ not doing anything to earn it? Why are you upset at institutions that award scholarships? Why aren’t you upset at the people charging you exorbitant amounts of money for information you could potentially gain for free? Why aren’t you upset with the fact that education is unaffordable for the majority of people in the first place? Why is it so hard to just admit you think education should be free? Too radical of a statement to say out loud?
In conclusion, thank goodness for being a middle class, non-white, learning-disabled, female-loving woman that is unable to find a job. All these factors are terrible things which have made my life infinitely easy and care-free. By the way, I’m breathing; may I have my degree on a silver platter now?
