While the following service organizations may offer awards at the national level, some only offer scholarships through their local chapters. If you don’t find information about awards through the national organization, you can still use their website to locate your local chapter. read more…
Remember that breakfast sponsored by the Lions Club that your parents dragged you to on Saturday morning? Ever wonder why these community clubs have such fundraisers? It’s to help students like you, silly! Service organizations like the Lions Club (as well as dozens of others) raise money to provide scholarships to students in their communities. read more…
Online Backup, Do You Use It now?
We’ve been discussing a lot of things about online backup lately, and what action have you taken about it? Are you still wondering whether you really need that or not? If you’re not sure whether you really need this service or if you’re afraid of not being able to use it, you can use the free trial. I recommend you to choose among myPCbakup, justcloud, and zipcloud, because they rank number 1, 2, and 3 in several websites and provide 14 days free trial. read more…
Choosing Online Backup
Having an online backup is a must in today’s life, so it’s normal to see many companies offered this kind of services, starting from the cheap one to the very expensive one. As students, you might wonder whether you really need to use this service or not. Some others think that the price will be very expensive, actually it’s not, if you love to hang out with your friends and buy a glass of coffee, you’ll be able to pay for the online backup companies. read more…
We have never met a college or career counselor (and we have met thousands) who does not keep a list of local scholarships. Whether your counselor posts these scholarships on a bulletin board, lists them in a newsletter or updates them online, take the initiative to find out what they know. read more…
Love IT and Want to Make Money from It?
You don’t need to be as popular as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to make money from your Information Technology (IT) skills. You also don’t need to wait till you graduate from college to make something that can be sold to everyone and start generating your own passive income. Do you know that in fact, college students have more spare time compared to employers? Thus, you have to optimize your spare time by doing something useful for your future.
Waiiittt.. to start a new project we need money, it might be a lot of money if we want to do something big too, but we don’t have money. I know some clever students that are lucky enough to get student loans to continue their study at college, so they never think about start making something that need much money. Also, without enough capital, we can’t start the project although we can gather friends that have some interests and wills to create something useful for the society while generating money after that. read more…
The most obvious place to find a scholarship is often the last place students look: in their own communities. While the prizes for back- yard scholarships may not be as large as the more widely publicized national awards, they often have significantly less competition. This means you are much more likely to win. read more…