By: Garin Kilpatrick
When you must answer,
harsh questions of life,
Will you fall, or will you rise?
Will you stand tall, or meet your demise?
“Will you be noble?” Kiplings if asks us all.
Archive for August, 2009
August 25th, 2009
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August 21st, 2009
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By: Garin Kilpatrick
The eduify Poetry Analysis Series will consist of five separate Blog posts, and this introduction post. Each of the following five posts will analyze one of the five Poems by the five acclaimed Authors. Stay tuned to @eduify and @GarinKilpatrick as a new post will be announced every few days! The Poems we will be Analyzing are written by the 5 dead poets pictured above: Kipling, Frost, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Carrol. Shakespeare has been in the ground the longest but nonetheless his poetry and plays remain very alive! To learn when the aforementioned Authors lived, and what their first names are (and which Author used a pen name) simply read the rest of the post. You will also find introductions to these well written men and mention of the Poems that will be analyzed.
August 13th, 2009
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For new college students, the summer before school starts can be a stressful, hectic few months. You’re preparing for your first year of post-secondary school, you’re worried about your dorm, living in a new place, and on top of that, you need to line up financial aid and scholarship money. But we’re hearing from more and more students who are having a harder time receiving financial aid in these tough times than ever before — and we’re even hearing that state budgets are even going so far as to cut financial aid programs for students, even the ones who need it the most. Everyone knows that going to college is a valuable experience which helps people get further in life — and that the pursuit of knowledge has a worth that far exceeds anything money can buy — so we want to do what we can, financially, to make sure you can go to college. We provide educational services, after all, so of course we care about education.
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August 6th, 2009
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How do you win a scholarship? Perhaps the easiest way if you have an essay is to enter the eduify.com Wunderkind Scholarship contest. Beyond doing what you can to get the most votes for the essay you submit to the eduify scholarship contest, you can also win other scholarships by taking the application process seriously. Put your best effort into winning a scholarship and you raise your chances significantly. Don’t send generic, canned scholarship applications out. Scholarship admissions committees can tell when an applicant is half-heartedly applying or not taking the application process seriously enough, so why risk losing a scholarship for lack of effort?
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August 4th, 2009
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There’s no doubt about it: scholarship essays are a tricky matter to approach. Scholarship competitions often arrive at your doorstep during the last half of the school year, by far the most hectic time in the academic year when students are already bogged down with extracurriculars, final exams, looming end-of-year grades, not to mention stress-inducing standardized tests. More often than not, high-schoolers focus on their “real schoolwork” and procrastinate on the “optional schoolwork” of scholarship applications, to the point where they end up scrambling, up to the final hours, to turn in shoddy, half-hearted applications, essays, and personal statements to a host of scholarship competitions they actually would have had a good chance of winning, had they simply believed in themselves more and taken more time to do a job well done. Read the rest of this entry »
