Financial Aid Research Paper

I’ve lived a life where I’ve enjoyed every possible privilege that was given to me. I’ve traveled many places, well funded public education, I live in a house my family owns, and I go to school by the scholarships my community has awarded me. It’s hard for me to justify my feelings that I don’t have enough food, money, or material things. I have been given everything and yet sometimes I feel like I have nothing. How can I justify the financial aid that was awarded to me when I know that someone else needs it more than me? Someone who hasn’t been helped and mentored by their community and society to succeed.

“I’m afraid I can’t tell explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see.”(Lewis Carroll)
“Hand to mouth” is a term many people use for the people who struggle on the Vineyard. There are many of us piled into the corner of society. Struggle is …show more content…
It’s high season on the Island and jobs need to be filled, and so the performance begins. I’ve worked many different jobs in my lifetime, I started as soon as I possibly could when I turned thirteen. My first job was at a restaurant, which happened to be my whole families first job. It was tradition that I start there and then try out other fields. I started working thirteen hour days with double shifts and I decided that bussing wasn’t my favorite thing. I added working at an art gallery, a farm stand, house cleaning, lawn mowing, and boat washing. I moved on to farming, shop working and baking after that. I’ve always had at least three things going at once. This summer I worked at a community Market in the small fishing village of Menemsha. I also worked at Orange Peel Bakery and on top of that I worked as an assistant to a Woman with Ehlers-Danlos. I worked for three empowering woman who had big ideas for me and their community. This was a full seven days a week commitment. I admit that I’m a workaholic and that it’s easier for me to work myself to death than deal with my