I don't know if this is going to reach the people it's really directed at, but like.
If you're putting in for a scholarship from a nonprofit that exists because someone died, maybe don't invoke the name of the dead person if you didn't know them? Certainly don't say ' I never knew [dead person] but it's so sad what happened'.
Like. Fuck. Yeah. We know. The people reading your essay fucking know. It's almost like she was our family or something.
And I say it like this because I am upset and need to vent it somewhere, but really, genuinely, don't do it. Because now I have to try and look past my old grief getting dredged up again and decide - fairly - if I think this person deserves scholarship money. And I fundamentally think that what amounts to a slip up shouldn't otherwise disqualify the essay, but it certainly made me look at it unfavorably. Now the rest of it has to overcome that.
i keep making the same dumbass joke but yeah here’s the idiots. yk that one tiktok audio from that one animated show that i forgot the name of? (“what if you quit drinking?”) yeah. that one.