Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Presently, seniors may choose to donate theirmoney specifically to a scholarship fund butcannot give to individual departments or programs...
...slept here," says boy-genius programmer Joey Liaw, 19, who deferred a scholarship to Stanford to work here. In one year, he says, he's made enough money to cover two years at Stanford, which he says costs $32,000 a year...
...were the Carneals, but both Kip and Michael may have resented their accomplished and popular older sisters. Kristin Kinkel wasn't just a pretty cheerleader--she was the 100-pound spitfire who got tossed into the air to delight crowds at Hawaii Pacific University, which gave her a scholarship. Kelly Carneal graduated from Heath High just last month--only six months after her brother apparently killed three girls in the school's prayer group--as Heath's valedictorian. After the shooting, Michael told a psychiatrist that everyone talked about his sister, not about...
There is more to it, however. I was surprised when I came home by how many people in my home town "knew of me," that is, knew that I had been studying on scholarship in the U.S. for three years. I have had more than seven visits in the past three days from friends and relatives, anxious to hear about "life over there." Not only have I become a prime object of my parents' pride, but I have also (by word of mouth, seemingly) become an image of success. I left home at 14 to go to the first private...
What is disturbing to me when people here are talking about me or about other scholarship students from Bulgaria is that every parent (among the ones I have met) seems to know of some bright kid or some bright relative who has "succeeded" and is living abroad, either working or studying on scholarship. Instead of looking inward at the problems with which the country is faced and trying to figure out solutions, the usual Bulgarian is looking outward, more precisely westward, and hoping either that their child would be one of the "successful" ones or that, by some sort...