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D2F Book Scholarship Report

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Being a marketing and management major at a highly competitive PWI I have no choice but to work hard and stand out, which I’ve come to realize is harder than one may think. In the past two years I’ve went through a journey of assimilation. Not only assimilating to my new, more diverse location but also assimilating to now being a small fish in a big pound. When I came to the University of Kentucky I had become familiar with struggling in class, going to tutoring, asking for help, something a former elementary school valedictorian, national honor society member and all around “know-it-all” had never experienced. During this journey I’ve learned that excepting help in anyway big or small can make difference: academically or financially. Receiving the the D2F Book Scholarship will easily help me benefit academically, as hard copies of books are known to be more beneficial when it comes to learning. This is especially the case in the strenuous business courses I am taking, in classes like accounting having the book with you instead of e-books that come with access codes are easily the difference …show more content…

If awarded this scholarship some of the financial strain that I will encompass this semester will be removed. It will allow some helps to not only myself a full time student who works part time to help pay for things like rent, transportation and other incidentals but also my parents who are apart of the working class and while supporting me through college paying for everything; books, rent, tuition, transportations, incidentals, also have my three siblings who are all high school and middle school aged. In addition to this they also support my elderly grand mother and great aunt so any financial help that will not only allow me to focus more on my studies by eliminating debt but also allow my parents to be able to spend their funds else where by eliminating financial strain is always

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