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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By adventures-with-luke | Views [171] | Scholarship Entry
I will NEVER forget the day it was time for me to leave Seattle and come home. I wish it were because it was just so hard to say goodbye to my friends, but unfortunately this tale ends in a way only I could make possible. I woke up late for the airport.... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By misterbrown | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
“Do not stop in Shiprock.” Deputy Garlaza, of the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office, advises we drive through Shiprock without stopping; there's nothing there and it's simply not safe. We pull away from the gas station/casino and hurry past Shiprock, ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By worldwidemikah | Views [200] | Scholarship Entry
As the van pulled away, I stood on the porch of my Nebraska home and wondered what life would be like now that I was fatherless. After three years of watching him suffer through chemo, radiation and surgery, I came home to see a hospice van sitting in ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By blipofexistence | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
The first time I traveled out of state was when I was ten years old. My father worked for an oil company, and was supposed to take a routine class in Chicago. I had never gone anywhere before, and now was my chance. The plane ride was long, but I enjoyed ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By impulsive19 | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
From the beautiful heat of an Australian January, to sitting in the back of a cab driving through Queens with a numb sensation coursing through my entire body. How on earth did I end up here? Impulse. Pure impulse could land you on an overseas flight.... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By eleutheromania | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
Last year I decided that I should try to conquer all my dreams before leaving Law School. So, even though I knew I was being the most naïve lawyer-to-be in the whole world I sent my application to the Inter American Comission of Human Rights. I have ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By mastap561 | Views [144] | Scholarship Entry
We were escaping her tiny dormroom in Auckland, and heading towards her mother's house in Wellington. I went to pick up the car at "affordable car rentals" the day before. That morning we packed our small bags, and planned our itinerary, "First we fill ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By frossangelkoska | Views [168] | Scholarship Entry
“Be prepared for anything and wary of everything”! This is the advice my family is sending me off with to the United States. -“It’s much farther than your mind can grasp right now. There’s an ocean between there and HOME” – because, naturally, I’m 19 ... Read more >
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Wed, 7 May 2014 | By romykate | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
There I was, 17 years old and surrounded by a bunch of Americans at least 10 years older than me, on a party bus complete with champagne buckets and a pole, heading to Valley City, ND. Never heard of it? Neither had I, but it was home to my lovely sister ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By kristymisheal | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
New York City; the concrete jungle bedazzled with bright lights and even brighter dreams. Visiting the Big Apple as a naïve South African, I am overwhelmed by the enormity that makes up this momentous city. However, beyond the twinkling of Times Square ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By thecuriouscatadventures | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
I look up from my laptop to stare out of the window in front of me. It’s April and the sporadic showers are a reminder that it’s spring. My view of the Boston Common is gray and blurred by the downpour, but I can still make out the outlines. Watching ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By kumikomatter | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
It all started on a safari ride in Africa… You’re probably thinking, “What does a safari ride have to do with poop?!” I was on a volunteer trip in Swaziland the summer before I started high school. To liven the quiet nights, my roommates and I decided ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By aviva88 | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry
I’m running through the Black Rock Desert of Nevada clad only in a red tutu and black boots, one hand clasped in my friend’s, the other clutching a bag of peanut M&M’s. I’ve never felt freer. The day began with fear. As the women of my Burning Man camp ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By harryt | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry
My first every travel story… And it is about gunshots in Brooklyn. Please hear me out though… I want to start by sharing my experience of working in Brooklyn. What a crazy place!!! Having come from a small village in Oxfordshire; Brooklyn is another ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By heartfires | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
Growing up in a small town in rural Nova Scotia, I never truly felt I belonged anywhere in the world and then I visited Arizona for the first time and I knew I had come home. A lot of people who I talk to say the same thing when I tell them how amazing ... Read more >
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