I am a veteran as well. The GI Bill may cover a lot of the tuition, but you can save it for your masters or doctorate. Is what I’m planning to do if I win the JKC
I regret that a few of my points came across incoherent or confusing. There are also a few other noteworthy items I should have listed like being evicted, homeless and the likes. I just didn’t want it to be seen as a run of the mill tear jerker.
@Jouuuu If we are going to use it as a slogan, we need to make sure we spell “loose” correctly! 
@pearsonx With all due respect, calm down. @Jouuuu was not being disrespectful. Lets take a moment to realize that our interpretation of written comments isnt always the intended message.
wow and @pearsonx you are the same person who wrote a comment directed at me asking if I “needed to talk so much.” That was plain hateful. This is a positive environment for student support. Obviously, you have some stuff going on in your personal life which is spilling over into this online message board; evident from you going from 0-50 on an intensity scale over silly things which should not cause such drama. It is very unscholarly of you and to be honest, it is embarrassing to be nominated for the same award as someone who acts this way. You seem to be writing long posts yourself where you jump to conclusions, get uncomfortably defensive, and do not even take a moment to spell check which makes your words hold less value. Go get a hug or something. No one else here has any issues with anyone else’s posts… Seriously though, hugs are a great medicine, or go do something fun in the sunshine, pet a pony… any of those things sound much better than this toxicity.
So are any other semi-finalists in Chicago today…? 
@Auggie95 That’s the joke/meme though… “All hell will break lose.”
Also, why is there a dog emoticon :o3, pig emoticon :O), even a CHICKEN ~:>, but no cat?!?!?! That’s crazy.
@muffinpoptarte I think it’s best to just avoid any conflict. At least, that’s what I chose to do after that response. Let’s just complain about why THERE IS NO CAT EMOTICONS…
No cats allowed here because we are apparently going to “hold” onto them (squeeze them to death) seeing how anxious we all are . Weren’t we throwing them out the window after too? Now now fellows… Not nice…
If I win - I might get a cat and name it - Jack, the Kitty that Could (JKC) - haha? Funny? … Probably not funny but- whateveeeeeeeer!!! And I’m going to dress it in a cap and gown this Halloween, I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care
there are a few in my college. what school you go to
@muffinpoptarte not chicago but michigan that’s close enough jejejeej
i told one of the JKCF staff members that this would be chicago’s award cycle, and to set aside TWO TABLES for us this year. THAT’S RIGHT, BABY!
It’s San Diego’s year, @optimisticky!
@skaday San Diego City College. I am wiped from the event. At the airport getting ready to fly home, yay! Where are you and your classmates from?
@LitMajor1107 woah woah woah are you saying the jkc scholars weekend will be in San Diego?
The college scholarship said they had their first winner this morning!!
oh. my. goodness. Why is it taking so long?
a little. I received the president’s honors list just after submitting my application, awarded on the 30th. So it would’ve been nice to have that one tere.
muffinpoptate, I hold to everything I said about your post. And you should really take a time to analyze yourself before trying to attack other people. I don’t have any issues in my personal life, and, if I would have any, I’m mature enough to know how to control it. Relax people, don’t try to release your stress at the spense of others. Yo really went out of the plate with your post.
@muffinpoptarte, lol no. I mean San Diego should have a nice number of winners this year
I had this dream that a guy named person x was shoving me into a box while yelling at me that I shouldn’t be shoving people in a box. When I finally got out of the box I saw personx in a box sniffing its farts talking about the smell of flowers.
Also…spell please. I’m having a hard time hearing the hyper emotional insults.
Hahaha. This thread gets better every day. I can’t wait to meet all of you other crazy people.