Bibi4evr shares some tips for finding and entering scholarships.

From $50-$50,000 there are thousands upon thousands of scholarships available. These scholarships can either involve heavy paperwork like recommendation letters, official transcripts, and multiple essays, or require no paperwork at all. The beauty of scholarship searching is you can tailor your searches to match your interests. Another glorious aspect of scholarship hunting is that you may find one website that hosts hundreds of scholarships on its page, saving you time from looking for them individually. Here are some tips and tricks to scholarship hunting I've discovered on my own, as well as some basic information you should keep in mind:

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by nicenfun

During this past week, I traveled to Ohio to visit the cities of Cleveland and Toledo in order to go to an aquarium and a zoo. It has always been a dream of mine, and I was finally able to fulfill that! It was a great experience to see and learn about all sorts of different land and water creatures and I would love to visit more establishments around the country.

My first stop was to the Greater Cleveland Aquarium suggested by another Whyville citizen, iPeny. I am extremely grateful that she recommended this aquarium to me as it was a wonderful place to visit. I took this photograph with my phone of a cute and silly stingray in their infamous shark tube. He was suctioned to the tube and the very first thing I noticed was his adorable smile! Even though what appears to be eyes are actually not, the illusion of him smiling was too cute to not take a picture of. Here are some quick facts (as usual!) about stingrays:

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