Marine Corps Scholarship Essay

I would like to immensely thank each and every one of the donors for the Marine Corps Scholarship for providing the funds for not only myself, but many others, to allow us to achieve a post-secondary education. Without their generous contributions, many of us would not be able to continue—or even began—our path to higher education. My gratitude cannot be expressed enough to the donors for allowing me to continue my college education.

In the spring of this incoming academic year, I will be transferring from a community college to a four-year school. With this transfer, I will be presented the opportunity to finish my degree, met new professors and classmates, and take interesting classes. However, the greatest thing that I will be presented with is a higher tuition bill for attending a four-year college. At first, I was very worried about how I would pay for it; I never had to take a loan for my community college because I could cover whatever else I had to pay. My parents don’t have that much money so I began to get anxious of if it was even a possibility to attend my four-year school after I was finished with community college. I might have to stop going to school in order just to pay for it and I did not want to do that. However,
much to my great surprise, I was awarded this scholarship, which will greatly aid to lower the cost of attending school. I have managed to avoid a great hardship of stopping school as well as not to be a financial burden to my parents because of being awarded this scholarship.

Being a psychology major is not as easy as it seems, especially when you are transferring from a two-year community college to a four-year school. With this new transition, I will be faced with a change in environment as well as a change in cost as well. However, being awarded this scholarship will allow me to focus not on the cost burden, but rather my studies. It’s unfortunate that many students have to deal with the dilemma of having to pick whether to focus on their education or the cost of their education and cannot only concentrate on their studies. I feel immensely lucky that I won’t have to worry about that in the upcoming school year.
As I have just stated, psychology isn’t as easy to study as many believe it is; there is a lot of knowledge and application you must have to truly master the subject.
There are books to read, papers to write, lectures to attend. All of this amounts to a lot of hard work that must be accomplished, especially if you want to make your mark on the subject. I, for one, want to be known as a rather revolutionary figure in the psychology of sexuality with my research constantly being referenced because of its quality and content. I know this is a long stretch since I am about to enter my junior year of college, but I feel like I am allow to say that more confidently especially since I have be awarded the funds to keep reaching to my
goal.