pro-scholar
yesterday i was driving home and i stopped to check the mail. mentally, i noted that its kind of strange how i waited religiously by the mailbox for my scholarship (or what turned out to be a lack thereof) to come to my house from creighton. and i had bad panic attacks on the drive home, etc. etc. now, i just kind of drive home and check the mail because it became such an obsessive habit. so yesterday i do this and there is no mail in the mailbox and i think about how that’s a little weird and then i walk in and see all of the mail on the couch. the first thing i notice is a letter from creighton. i open it and its about financial aid and things like that. so i have more forms to fill out. whee. then i look through the other mail and found a letter granting another 500 dollars from washburn university.. then i noticed a bigger envelope and turned it over to reveal that it was from creighton university. i opened it up and found a letter congratulating me for winning the Creative Writing Merit scholarship for the poetry that i submitted. needless to say, $16,000 ($4,000 a year) makes the difference and i can afford Creighton now. i’m incredibly excited. but i’m also pretty terrified.