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Tech Scholarships for College/University?
Mirkon asks: "I'm a potential high school graduate, and have been accepted to a four-year school for furthering my rather biased educational interests. The problem is that while I'm cheap, the school (predictably) isn't. It's still getting itself off the ground, and thus only offers the legal minimum of scholarships - for racial minorities and those with intense financial need, neither of which I qualify for. Tedious searching for third-party scholarships has revealed that there are very, very few that cater to the interests of a technologically-inclined student, and even fewer that don't give a paltry one-time prize of $500 or less. While there's certainly no shortage of 'write an essay about us/you and we might give you a scholarship' offerings, I find it hard to swallow that there aren't more and more valuable scholarships to encourage growth in the tech sector. Are there?"
Tell your parents they shouldn't have oppressed the Indian tribes and African slaves, and destroyed their rich cultural heritage and huge supplies of decorative baskets and ugly wooden heads, so that you might have gone to the college cheaper. Until then - sorry, this is United States, bro, if you're white and 17-45, well, go back to Canada.
and get a student loan if you can't afford ..
or down at the Pentagon
Cleaning up PC remains left from the plane crash?
You want a major in which you can actually find work after graduation. Something useful like Comparative Literature or Philosophy.
Don't worry, our aging population is making sure that you can't afford costly education by electing officials that will divert money from your future so that the baby boomers can retire early after only having worked 1/3 of their life. The money saved will be well spent on prescription drugs, life support, and welfare for old people (social security).
No, my point was that you can do a hell of a lot more with a CS degree than IT, because IT is for bottom feeding losers. But I guess you are too retarded to see the difference.
Who said IT?
I realize y'all sysadmins assume that you are the world of computing, but... you're not. I'd assume that he's interested in software engineering. There are many roles in software engineering that directly depend on an academic computer science background.
It might be hard to get those jobs, but... that's what a lot of CS students are interested in. If he said he desperately wanted to spend 40 hours a week managing Windows installations, I'd agree with you.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.