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Scholarships From FOSS Organizations?
Athaulf writes "I'm a high school kid with big dreams of prestigious technology schools like MIT or Cal-Tech. The problem is, my upper-middle class family had more down to Earth plans for me and my college choices (about $30,000/year more down to Earth, actually), so financial aid and college savings won't come anywhere near MIT's price tag. However, I've been programming in C for a while now, and might release a GPL'd Linux app soon. With this self-taught programming experience, academic merit, and plenty of extra curricular activities, are there any FOSS supporting organizations who might grant me a scholarship for my contributions? Do companies like Google or Red-Hat offer scholarships to big name schools in return for a few years of work after college?"
You could fiddle with some BSD and enjoy the cheaper things in life.
They'll pay your tuition... then they'll send you someplace where people shoot at you.
Hmmmmm... maybe join the Canadian Army instead.
but then i guess that's what higher education has fallen to these days.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
find kevin spacey and learn to count cards...
O how sweet.
Cultivate your ability to run fast while holding a ball. The US education system values this far more than academic ability, and prefers to educate people with such abilities rather than people who will spend all their time studying. If you can do anything along those lines, they'll teach you how to count for free.
I don't get it either. But then, I've never understood how the US education system works. I'm not all that convinced that it does.