Scholarship Available

$10,000 AISES Google Scholarship deadline for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Management Information Systems for Alaska Natives, American Indians, or Native Hawaiian – minimum 3.5 GPA – postmark deadline June 15, 2008.

http://www.aises.org/userfiles/2008%20Google%20Academic%20Scholarship%20Form.pdf

Scholarship Deadline July 1st

The Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association (APICDA) announces the availability of scholarships for the 2008-09 school year. Eligible applicants must meet one of the two residency requirements: 1. historical relationship to one of the following communities Atka, Akutan, False Pass, Nelson Lagoon, Nikolski, St. George, or Unalaska or 2. at least five years current residency in one of the seven communities listed above. Applicants must be formally accepted at a college or university, plan to attend on a full-time basis, and maintain a 2.0 GPA or greater. Scholarships are awarded up to $2,500 per semester, depending on need. Completed application packets are due by July 1, 2008 Late applications will not be accepted.

For more information visit our website at www.apicda.com or contact Laura Delgado at 1-888-927-4232, or e-mail: ldelgado@apicda.com

Lessons from Bill Gates

Following our theme of student visits and graduates last May, here is some wisdom from one of America's most successful and wealth people. Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.