Community Service & Schedule Rigorousness

Meteora
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:06:54 +0000

Thanks for your reply.


I would be glad if they just cared about grades and not how many semester credits/work hours I had. In fact, a transcript (if and when they ask for it) doesn’t even highlight how long it took one to graduate so I think I’m good there. Who knows though, but whatever. Hopefully my work experience so far and future possible internships makes up for that. What do you mean “risk is that you don’t have a way to pay for it”? Do you mean like the fact I was part-time in the past can’t be undone?
Ok, so what about a non-paid internship? Like I said, I don’t know what kind of volunteer work out there that doesn’t consist of helping out. Must it help out at least a minimum number of people for it to be considering community service?
It’s not that it can’t be afforded, but my mother would still be bombarded with expenses especially since now she has to deal with paying off my 28-year-old (oldest) brother’s $60,000 loans, since now he has decided to strictly stay home and watch TV all day instead of actually be what he’s supposed to with his earned degree - a pharmacist. Pretty sad actually when you look up a pharmacist’s salary. And yeah, she won’t kick him out. She thinks he’s “sick” but the fact of the matter is he thinks because he is many negative things (that a typical person with low self-esteem would think he/she is), he doesn’t have to do jack in life (neither was he diagnosed with anything severe when she took him to the hospital several times before), but he was given some medication to assist against his fear of germs…a medication he refuses to take since he thinks it’ll make him urinate on himself (LOL) despite that his inability to hold it worth a damn is very likely due to his complete and utter inactivity. The fact he’s still like this even though he’s taking no medication proves it. She (mother) despite being told all of the above refuses to take action know.


Not to mention I plan on getting aid from my mother when I hopefully move out to my permanent residence in the future, and that $20,000 dorm money would consist of it…I’d rather use that as downpayment towards a house then waste it on rent and utilities. Yeah, it’s really all that big baby’s fault, plus partially my father but he doesn’t compare really.

Plus I apply for federal student aid. In fact I submitted my FAFSA yesterday, and currently based on my parents’ income I don’t really get any aid (very rare that I would at this point) since they together make around 80 grand a year, and I don’t know if Arab (which I am) would be considered a minority since apparently under many applications, that falls under the category WHITE (and there is no “Arab” category) and as far as being an athlete, that’s a no. I was a varsity cross country runner in high school, but those days are over (not to mention was in high school…) and as far as “great” grades…what is the minimum GPA for that? I get around 3.0 nowadays. Two semesters ago I got a 4.0 (first time in my life) but right now I’m roughly a B student, and something tells me in order to get a scholarship for grades…the minimum GPA would probably need to be around 3.5, which I don’t have (nor think I will get). Besides, I’m almost positive those scholarships will require you to be full-time which I don’t plan on being either.

I think I’ll be fine for the most part. I probably just need to find something that’ll make up for the “part-time” semesters (supposing it’ll even be a problem). Doing internships is one thing I’m sure would make up for that alone, then there is/will be other stuff like good grades and etc.