Well it's official, the SOAR team has moved locations. Just to let you know, THIS WAS NOT AT ALL CONVIENENT. We had to SQEEZE around eachother to pack boxes (Which I'm very good at), haul stuff from the downstairs Hostel to the Upstairs offices of our fearless leaders. Let's just say that I've never smelled so many different senses :) Just kidding. I did however get my yearly dose of R&B which included everything from old Usher to the new sound of "Brithday Sex" (Heard that song twice by the way).
As most of you know who read this, this was finals week. It was full of difficult study sessions and nail biting test taking. Luckily, because i'm an integrated Media Student and I study Video Production, I didn't really have any finals, I literally had some projects due, a notebook of semester long work and a mock TV Station Operation situation...See what I did there...I made it into a song...wow, too much R&B for sure.
So, I'm currently sitting in the advising office waiting for my girlfriend (a prospective student) to get all of her classes figured out. I'm actually sitting right behind the wall where Jessica (SOAR team "Boss") is sitting. I'm listening to her describe the photography program...would it be weird if I asked her if I could give this person a tour....and now i just talked to Jessica and I think i creeped her out.
Has anybody noticed what a sunny beautiful day it is. It's 63 degrees outside and amazing!
So, I have some exciting news that nobody will probably be as excited as I am, but i'm going to say it anyway. I got FINAL CUT PRO 7 LAST NIGHT!!!!!!
It's amazing, It's a fantastic editing program and it's top of the line, it's going to be so much easier to do everything that I need to finish. I installed it on two computers last night, my laptop and my home desktop...it's amazing.
I also just bought a guitar pickup. I've needed one for over a year and it's a killer deal. It's a $140 pick up for $55 bucks!!!!! it's such a good deal and such an incredible sound that comes out of it. I love it.
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure how it's going to work, but i'm going to try and post VLOGS...WHich in case you don't know, they are video blogs, so instead of you having to read about everything i'm doing you can actually just watch the video and see who I am and associate my brilliantly written words with my amazing face...ish here.
I'm not sure i have anything else to really say so I'm going to leave it at that.
Goodbye and Until next time
Sincerely
Nathanael Sams
SOAR Team Memeber
Friday, March 19, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Scholarship Screwup #9: Bore Me With Irrelevant Stuff
by Josh Barsch - http://www.givemescholarships.com/2009/07/26/scholarship-screwup-9-bore-me-with-irrelevant-crap/
I know, I know – that’s an abrasive way of putting it for those of you who are easily wounded. In other words, then, do yourself a favor: exclude any unnecessary information that has nothing to do with your essay. Everything in your essay should be relevant to the topic at hand.
This is us after we read most scholarship essays.
This is us after we read most scholarship essays.
We receive bad examples of staying on topic every day. They’re the essays that start like this: “My name is Jane Doe, and I was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania on My mother is a dental hygienist and my father is a mortgage broker, and I have two brothers and two sisters. I attend Kennedy High School, where I am a senior.”
Unless you’re somehow going to tie that information into some critically important part of your essay, the committee doesn’t care a lick about any of it; instead, it sounds suspiciously like you’re trying to fill up space on the page and nothing more.
Unless you’re bringing up things like your birthplace, parents and siblings in order to shed light on your unique upbringing – let’s say, you were born to crack-addicted parents in Miami who dropped you off in the Everglades as a newborn, but a family of alligators took you in and raised you as one of their own, and that’s the reason you’ve been captain of the varsity swim team since age 11 – then info like this is a waste of space and a waste of the committee’s time. We call it “commodity information.” Everyone has a birth date, a school and a hometown, and unless yours have some sort of special significance, leave them out of your essay.
I know, I know – that’s an abrasive way of putting it for those of you who are easily wounded. In other words, then, do yourself a favor: exclude any unnecessary information that has nothing to do with your essay. Everything in your essay should be relevant to the topic at hand.
This is us after we read most scholarship essays.
This is us after we read most scholarship essays.
We receive bad examples of staying on topic every day. They’re the essays that start like this: “My name is Jane Doe, and I was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania on My mother is a dental hygienist and my father is a mortgage broker, and I have two brothers and two sisters. I attend Kennedy High School, where I am a senior.”
Unless you’re somehow going to tie that information into some critically important part of your essay, the committee doesn’t care a lick about any of it; instead, it sounds suspiciously like you’re trying to fill up space on the page and nothing more.
Unless you’re bringing up things like your birthplace, parents and siblings in order to shed light on your unique upbringing – let’s say, you were born to crack-addicted parents in Miami who dropped you off in the Everglades as a newborn, but a family of alligators took you in and raised you as one of their own, and that’s the reason you’ve been captain of the varsity swim team since age 11 – then info like this is a waste of space and a waste of the committee’s time. We call it “commodity information.” Everyone has a birth date, a school and a hometown, and unless yours have some sort of special significance, leave them out of your essay.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Top 10 Scholarship Screwup's
Scholarship Screwup #10: Act Like You’ll Starve If You Don’t Win
from - www.givemescholarships.com
Judges know that you would very much like to receive the scholarships that you apply for. It’s natural for you to have some emotional stock in whether you win or not. College costs are serious business, and every dime you can get someone else to pick up for you, the better.
Creatively making ends meet is what it's all about.
But in hundreds of applications over the years, we’ve seen applicants taking this to extreme levels. Time after time, students write that if they don’t receive this very scholarship, they probably won’t be able to attend college. Or they won’t be able to pay the rent, or they’ll be kicked out into the streets (I’m not exaggerating here).
Now I admit that one of my purposes in creating the Give Me Scholarships site and writing the book is to help you manipulate the scholarship judges and, where appropriate, play on their emotions to your advantage. But remember, it’s a fine line. You must be careful about how hard to try to tug on the judges’ heartstrings. There are a couple of reasons why laying on the desperation in a scholarship essay is a bad idea:
1) It puts undue and unwelcome pressure on the scholarship committee. Judges are human, and no one wants to feel like the person who flushed a kid’s educational dreams down the toilet, or worse yet, got you tossed out of your apartment and onto the streets. Committee members have a heart, but they also have a job to do, and that’s to select the most qualified applicant. By suggesting that you won’t make it without them, you put them in a bind. How? Well, you’re not the only one doing it! There are a dozen stories a week just like these. And when there’s one scholarship to give and 12 people (this week) who say they can’t make ends meet without the award, then it’s a lot easier for the committee to trash all 12 and get back to its job of selecting the most qualified applicant.
2)From a more practical standpoint, you should never depend on receiving any one scholarship. The odds are always stacked against you (although less so now that you’re reading these emails), and placing your hopes on one award is like putting all your money on one roulette number. Always have a backup plan. Always investigate all your student loan options, grants, jobs, etc. Even someone with all the inside info in the Superpack shouldn’t bank on receiving scholarships if at all possible. Develop your educational plan first, including costs and how to pay for them; then, as you receive scholarships, start erasing sources of funds like loans and jobs as they’re no longer needed.
For Scholarship Screwup #9 Check back next week!
from - www.givemescholarships.com
Judges know that you would very much like to receive the scholarships that you apply for. It’s natural for you to have some emotional stock in whether you win or not. College costs are serious business, and every dime you can get someone else to pick up for you, the better.
Creatively making ends meet is what it's all about.
But in hundreds of applications over the years, we’ve seen applicants taking this to extreme levels. Time after time, students write that if they don’t receive this very scholarship, they probably won’t be able to attend college. Or they won’t be able to pay the rent, or they’ll be kicked out into the streets (I’m not exaggerating here).
Now I admit that one of my purposes in creating the Give Me Scholarships site and writing the book is to help you manipulate the scholarship judges and, where appropriate, play on their emotions to your advantage. But remember, it’s a fine line. You must be careful about how hard to try to tug on the judges’ heartstrings. There are a couple of reasons why laying on the desperation in a scholarship essay is a bad idea:
1) It puts undue and unwelcome pressure on the scholarship committee. Judges are human, and no one wants to feel like the person who flushed a kid’s educational dreams down the toilet, or worse yet, got you tossed out of your apartment and onto the streets. Committee members have a heart, but they also have a job to do, and that’s to select the most qualified applicant. By suggesting that you won’t make it without them, you put them in a bind. How? Well, you’re not the only one doing it! There are a dozen stories a week just like these. And when there’s one scholarship to give and 12 people (this week) who say they can’t make ends meet without the award, then it’s a lot easier for the committee to trash all 12 and get back to its job of selecting the most qualified applicant.
2)From a more practical standpoint, you should never depend on receiving any one scholarship. The odds are always stacked against you (although less so now that you’re reading these emails), and placing your hopes on one award is like putting all your money on one roulette number. Always have a backup plan. Always investigate all your student loan options, grants, jobs, etc. Even someone with all the inside info in the Superpack shouldn’t bank on receiving scholarships if at all possible. Develop your educational plan first, including costs and how to pay for them; then, as you receive scholarships, start erasing sources of funds like loans and jobs as they’re no longer needed.
For Scholarship Screwup #9 Check back next week!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Everyone has one... admit it..
we try not to admit it.. to over look it.. we even try to ignore the fact we all have one of these. we DEFINITELY MAKE EXCUSES...
But lets face it. its there and its NOT going anywhere. not even if we begged, paid, threatened or tricked. they don't move, they're loud and usually opinionated. I've often wondered where they come from... is it some genetics that went haywire early on or does it spawn from a long lasting infection of bad history and poor attitudes? either way, it now lives in the back row of the one room i have to spend the most time in.. ABSOLUTELY UNAVOIDABLE. its totally unfortunate that mine has to interrupt my life at its most busy time.. the time where i have the most homework, projects an finals to contend with.
When I asked others how they handle theirs, i was surprised to hear the response of "nothing"..
Is it possible??
NOT FOR ME.. mine is HUGE!!! UNBEARABLE!!! OBNOXIOUS EVEN!!!
always back there in the back row.. with their snide comments and disrespecting demeanor. its enough to make me want to control S, minimize my final cut pro, disconnect my mac keyboard an ping them in the head with it all the way from the front row.
we all have those wanna be class clowns, that are really just sarcastic A-holes...
You know, they say that patience is a virtue... but if i have to be patient much longer that "virtue" is going to turn into a "verdict" from a jury of my peers...
(LAC)
`amee`
But lets face it. its there and its NOT going anywhere. not even if we begged, paid, threatened or tricked. they don't move, they're loud and usually opinionated. I've often wondered where they come from... is it some genetics that went haywire early on or does it spawn from a long lasting infection of bad history and poor attitudes? either way, it now lives in the back row of the one room i have to spend the most time in.. ABSOLUTELY UNAVOIDABLE. its totally unfortunate that mine has to interrupt my life at its most busy time.. the time where i have the most homework, projects an finals to contend with.
When I asked others how they handle theirs, i was surprised to hear the response of "nothing"..
Is it possible??
NOT FOR ME.. mine is HUGE!!! UNBEARABLE!!! OBNOXIOUS EVEN!!!
always back there in the back row.. with their snide comments and disrespecting demeanor. its enough to make me want to control S, minimize my final cut pro, disconnect my mac keyboard an ping them in the head with it all the way from the front row.
we all have those wanna be class clowns, that are really just sarcastic A-holes...
You know, they say that patience is a virtue... but if i have to be patient much longer that "virtue" is going to turn into a "verdict" from a jury of my peers...
(LAC)
`amee`
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