For weeks now, the school's been posting mysterious Ads all over campus. They ran something like this: "Have you met Mark? Come see what he stands for!" and included a little origami figure of a person (presumably Mark). Everyone at school knew about them because most of us had either seen them for ourselves or had some one else ask us what it was all about.
Today, I was hanging out in one of the common areas at school when some one brought out a giant statue version of the origami figure that was on all the ads. Naturally, I was as curious as everyone else, so I decided to stick around and find out what was going on.
After about 20 minutes of watching people set up, I was handed a pamphlet, which I eagerly read. Basically, it was about how we could make our "Mark" by donating to the school's scholarship funds. Facepalm.
Don't get me wrong. Scholarship funds are awesome, but asking college students to donate to them is like going to the foodbank and asking the people who rely on it for donations of non-perishable food items. Those of us who aren't currently making use of scholarships and bursaries are saving every penny just to pay to come here. Heck, some of us are living off ramen noodles even with our scholarship money. The point is that we rely on scholarships because we couldn't otherwise afford college. For the most, we certainly can't afford to donate to scholarship funds at this point. Our budgets are on life support as it is. Do they seriously not realise that we're poor?!?
I'm sorry. This is a bit of a rant, but it makes me angry.
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