(New scholarships posted everyday)
Students Seeking Education by Experiencing Academic America (S.E.A.)
an Houston, Texas based mentoring program for high school students, students at risk, and college bound students who want to attend an Historically Black College / University. (HBCU).
S.E.A will post a scholarship for minority students each day. If you are a high school senior, junior, or an transferring college student, these scholarships are for you. FREE MONEY! We all know through life there is nothing Free, you have to apply to receive this money. Your cost is time. The time it takes to fill out the scholarship application.. Look for the S.E.A. blog each day, highlighting a new scholarship listing 2010/2011.
TIPS FOR PICKING YOUR MAJOR
1. Obtain the list of what is offered at your school
2. List what interests you 2-5 options
3. Obtain the list of courses that are offered per major
4. Highlight the courses within each major that interest you *read the course descriptions* go through them one by one to see what sounds interesting & make notes
5. Contact and/or introduce yourself to 2 professors, career development staff, program adviser/guidance counselor & students within the major you are interested in. Ask them for a phone conference or face to face meeting. Ask them for feedback about their discipline. A. What they like about it? B.What they don’t? C.Why do they teach this discipline?/ Or why did you pick this major? D. Where have their students’ gone or professional fields they have chosen with this major? E. What are some of the challenges with this major?
6. Go to the library and/or research online career options for people majoring in what you have selected as your choices?
http://www.k-state.edu/acic/majorin/
http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/CareerHandouts.shtml
http://www.sru.edu/pages/534.asp http://www.rileyguide.com/careers.html
7. Take an assessment (Jung Typology) *think about the results & talk to someone you think may be able to share further insight like a career counselor, parent, teacher)
8. Once you’ve narrowed down your search based on these things, contact the Career Office or your Guide Counselor or Admissions Counselor for more information
9. Go back to Academic Services or Career Development to share your information and be determined to make a decision.
10. Finally, know that no-matter what you choose that if you choose another career path in the end that is okay. For example: my boss in Finance was an English Major, an Accountant I met started in Marketing. It’s not the end all be all – so just step out on faith, but absolutely include your research, interviewing, and gut and go for it!
G-O-A-L
G (Decide to GET more out of life. What do you want to do? What do you want to be?)
O (Outline your steps) 1, 2, 3 4
A (Allow for advice but be selective on who you ask
L (Learn your craft) you do this by – using resources available including people
S-E-T-T-I-N-G
S (Be specific, a new house 4 bedrooms, a man who has personality & wealth :-)
E (Encouragement) Apply this to yourself and have a cheering team. Find someone you trust that always offers you encouragement.
TT (Time to Think) – just think about where you are & how what you’ve done know is an accomplishment. Think about the improvements you’ve made. Every time you make a decision during the day, ask yourself this question, “Does it take me closer to, or further from my goal?” If the answer is “closer to,’ then you’ve made the right decision. If the answer is “further from,” well, you know what to do.
I (Internal Check) Assess the impact of this change.. Think of the ‘What IFs? What will happen if you achieve your goal? How will you feel if you do not? Are you willing to keep going if it takes you longer than you expected?
N (N - End date, Putting an end point on your goal gives you a clear target to work towards. (next week – 3 months, senior year) time management.
G (Go for it!) like Nike - just do it!
SCHOLARSHIP OF THE DAY
8-18-2010
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Minority Internship
Sponsor: Women's Sports Foundation
Address: Eisenhower Park East Meadow, NY 11554
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
Website: http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org
Program Summary:
Eligibility And Application: Applicant must be a woman of color who wishes to gain experience in a sports-related career and interact in the sports community. Internships are located at the Women's Sports Foundation in East Meadow, N.Y.
Amount: $12,000
Deadline: None
p.s. If you need help in your scholarship search, please contact
S.E.A. c/o NORRIS COLEMAN @ mr.nncoleman@yahoo.com
*As part of S.E.A. Mentoring Program, we want to build our Mentees vocabulary. S.E.A. has chosen to italicize words and statements in blue for our Mentee to understand and use in their vocabulary
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