Monday, January 04, 2010

Time to Get That Money for College

If you haven't done so already, it's time to start hunting down those scholarships and grants. The very first thing you need to do is to submit your FAFSA application. FAFSA stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid. You need this in order to apply for any type of federal student aid such as a Perkins Loan or a Pell Grant.

More scholarship info to follow. But first and foremost, submit your FAFSA application!!

Sunday, January 03, 2010

A Good Adiction

I'm addicted to reading.

My bookshelf is arranged by subject matter......Sort of......For the most part..... All the big books have to go on the tallest shelf, having nothing in common with each other except their height.

I also have one shelf dedicated just to those books that I plan on reading in the near future. The definition of near future is not what you would find in the Webster's Dictionary. It's my very own, personal version. The near future is the time between today and the day I die. I've always liked approximations!

I hear about books from friends, reading articles or blogs on the Internet, or even from a book I'm currently reading. If the book sounds interesting, I immediately go onto Amazon and buy it. They range from biographies to historical non fiction to architecture to home improvement. I consider myself to have fairly eclectic taste in books.

Unfortunately, my appetite for reading is much larger than the actual time I have for reading. I wish I could be more disciplined or more selective and only get the books that I will actually have time to read.

I guess I just keep pluggin' away and maybe someday surprise myself and find that I have no books left on my To Read shelf.