Blogging for Money

As I was looking over my earnings for the summer and seeing that 23% of my already small summer earnings were deducted in taxes, I felt somewhat poor. That realization and a little bit of free time compelled me to seek some scholarships. There are a surprising number of them around, most involving simple essays on a variety of accessible topics.

In my first step, I applied for a generic sort of "science scholarship" from some random company. After I submitted my essay and application, I decided to read the information from past winners. The first was a female who was a premed biology major, the second was a female premed biology major inspired by her mother's diagnosis with cancer, the third was a female premed biology major. It continued. In fact, every single person who has won this stupid scholarship was a female premed biology major. Half of them had parents who had had cancer at one point. Needless to say, I didn't feel to confident that my essay's message that I do physics more or less because it's really, really fun and beautiful would go over too well.

So I looked and I looked for more promising scholarships, and I think I've found one with a glimmer of hope. It's a $10,000 scholarship for creating and maintaining a blog. I can enter all of uberfluss into the competition. The only downside is that I have to start writing "unique and interesting" content about me and/or my "passions". Not sure that will happen, but given that this blog has documented more than one quarter of my life, the collective content is probably somewhat interesting.