Frostburg State University Scholarship Essay

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In the United States, basic education is a gift that everyone receives. But college is an opportunity that a lot of people do not get to experience. So my acceptance into Frostburg State University is a blessing. This is a chance of great measures, but it can go to waste if I can not attend the school because of monetary burdens. The answer to this problem is financial aid, like a scholarship. A scholarship given to me will be money well spent because it will be used on a hard worker who wants to explore different subjects to find one to major in and who overcame obstacles to graduate.

College is a time to determine what one wants to do with their life. Like most high school graduates, I am torn between two different degree majors, business and psychology. I could major in one and minor in the other one, but I do not know what I would do with them. When at Frostburg, my goal is to take different subjects that I will find interesting. Through one of these classes, I hope to discover a course that I will like and pursue as a career. …show more content…

For me, it was the service hours and the senior thesis I had to do in order to graduate. These two trials were difficult because of my old habit of procrastinating and my lack in writing skills. First my service hours, it was the easier one out the two because it was service to others, but the problem was getting them done on time. Unlike my previous years, I did my hours prior to the start of the school year and even did twice the number of hours that I needed. Last my senior thesis, it involved several steps, which included writing a rough draft, an outline, and the final draft. Freshman year, I saw this thesis as an unclimbable mountain, but the senior version of me saw it as a little hill. My new perspective made it easier to do and through perseverance and months of rewriting, I completed my senior thesis and received a B plus on

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