When I finished high school I never expected to go to college in spite of passing the entrance exams of some of the top universities in Manila. Imagine a reed-thin high-schooler in me joining his classmates in exploring the hot, filthy, smoggy city of Manila taking chances of passing entrance exams even though there was no guarantee that I could enroll come the next school year.
I was already setting my sights to becoming either a security guard, a soldier, a janitor, a priest, an insurance salesman, an MLM scammer, a not-so-macho dancer, etc. since my father was sick and jobless and we just could not ask for help all the time from our relatives abroad. Not that they don’t want to help us, but it’s just not in my father’s vocabulary to ask for help from them. He always reminded us to work on our own to achieve what we want and to strive hard in order to get what we need. Continue reading How Scholarship Grants Can Jumpstart Your Bright Future