general # one

Today is the annual city picnic day for city employees. The city allows everyone to take the day off and pretends to give us a special price on tickets for Geauga Lake. I say "pretends" because a little bit of investigation reveals that the cities' tickets actually cost two dollars above the normal price for entrance. Really though, that doesn't bother me. I'd just pay the regular entrance fee. The crucial factor in my decision not to attend was the lack of the waterpark being open. Without the waterpark, I really wasn't very interested in Geauga Lake.

So, since I've got the day off and i'm home, I decided to do something productive. I filled out and turned in a scholarship application. Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to be awarded some money from the scholarship fund, I could really use it.

As far as paying for school, I'm going to be borrowing a lot of money during the next several years -- especially if I go to law school. During my freshman year of college, I was given a grant for $1600.00 from the federal government. During my sophmore year, that same grant decreased to $800.00. For my junior year, as far as I know, I'll be given no grant aid. That's a pattern of less free money and more non-free (expensive) money. Not a good sign at all.