On a non-Terminator topic, I just went through the list of outside scholarships on
Geisel's website, which has been posted in this thread before. It's like hunting for a needle in a haystack, only the needle needs to have written on it your county of birth, ethnicity/nationality, or Greek affiliation.
One scholarship that seems to allow applications from almost anyone is the
Tylenol Future Care Scholarship, open to enrolled students, so I could apply next year. But I am not likely to do so. This pharmaceutical company's signature product
causes the most overdoses in the U.S. and
kills 100+ Americans per year. And the company itself has engaged in some controversial marketing practices, described
in an episode of This American Life.
So I dove back into the haystack. The only scholarship whose specific requirements I seem to fit is one that, well . . . I recently learned that one of my ancestors, an immigrant to the U.S., served in the Civil War . . . in Florida. As in, the Confederate States of America. That makes me eligible for a scholarship from the
United Daughters of the Confederacy, which is open to both genders. Nobody in my family has lived in the South since my Confederate ancestor's actual daughter moved to the Midwest, but eligible is eligible . . . on second thought (well really, first thought), medical school isn't
that expensive.