As it is getting closer to high
school graduation, I’ve been spending a lot of time both reflecting on my past
and planning out my future. Last Sunday afternoon, Trinity hosted their
Admitted Student Day where I was able to go and visit with other students who
are planning on or at least considering (for those who haven’t made commitments
to any schools yet) attending Trinity next Fall along with meeting some of the
faculty members, current students, and alumini.
I must
say, it’s a weird sensation to be standing in a room amoung complete strangers
who will soon become highly influencial over the next four years of my life.
Some will be my proffessors, mentors, coaches, tutors, classmates, co-workers, best
friends, roommates…who knows, maybe my future spouse was in that room. How
strange is that? After the school president, John Reed, along with some other
speakers finished-up their presentations many of us drove to Trinity’s Boathouse
for a BBQ that Trinity’s Crew Team was hosting. I talked to some of the
students who are currently part of crew and they seemed to love it! Now of
course, they’re trying to recruit me by telling me that I get to wake-up early
enough to watch the sunrise over the Cascade Mountains from the water.
They
all make it sound like a lot of fun, but I know it’ll get exhausting doing all
those hard workouts everymorning. Speaking of hard-work I’ve been thinking
about some of the unique job opportunities I could have in Downtown Everett or
Seattle and there are a lot of options. Maybe I could get a job right across from
Trinity at the Everett YMCA or just a few blocks away I could work at the
Comcast Arena or at the Everett Performing Arts Center. If I’m willing to drive
into Seattle there are plenty of opportunities working at various musems, tour
companies, theaters, ect. Or more specialized places like the Seattle Aquarium
or Pike Place Market…who knows what kind of job is out their just waiting for
me to come along!
Getting
a higher education from a private school is certainly not cheap, but they do
give out some nice scholarships. So far I’ve received an Honors Scholarship worth
$6,000 and the Lenore Meyers Scholarship worth $3,000 (for one year only). The
Honors Scholarship is just for my grades and the Lenore Meyers Scholarship is
for students planning on going into Trinity’s CYFS (Children, Youth, and Family Studies) Program. Apparently, in
the past years I would have received the full $10,000 for the Lenore Meyers
Scholarship, but they had alot of highly eligible applicants this year and I
was one of the top five so they had some left over money in the CYFS budget and
decided to give each of us who would have received the full scholarship in the
past a non-renewable scholarship for $3,000.
