Free Scholarships Blog

Don’t Fridays feel great?

Especially when there’s $10,000 on the line! That’s right, our good pals at FreeCollegeScholarships.net are drawing the next $10,000 winner TODAY! How do you enter in time? I thought you’d never ask…

• Sign up here. Simple as that.  You’re entered once you hit the first submit button
• They’re also giving away a second $10,000 scholarship HERE.  You DO NOT NEED TO BE AFFILIATED WITH THE MILITARY TO BE ELIGIBLE.

They’re both being drawn today, so you owe it to yourself to enter!!

Other cool stuff and point activities at ScholarshipPoints from this past week:

• Scholarship Idol Survey….to bring it back or not to bring it back….and in what fashion? You tell me.
• Read about life after college – From personal experience, I hate to break it to you…but college is a bubble of real life.  Loans, bills, rent, and all sorts of adult what-have-yous are going to come to fruition after college, and you want to be prepared, right?  So read on.
• Blogging for Dollars (points) – got a blog?  Write up a ScholarshipPoints.com review and get 100 points!
• Last but certainly not least, this week’s Professor Challenge

That’s all, have a great weekend guys!

-Captain J

Your code: TGIFCAPNJ

Well, not dollars exactly but lots of points! Do you have a blog? Would you like to earn some major points to use for entries into the fast approaching $10,000 scholarship drawing? If so, read on.

Here Are the Details

We’re giving 100 Scholarship Points to any member who writes a review of the ScholarshipPoints program. We want honest reviews so if there are things we can improve upon, include them in your review. The rules are simple…

• Your review must be 200 words or more.
• You must include at least one direct link to ScholarshipPoints.com.
• Your blog must not contain excessive profanity or be deemed offensive in any way (our call).
• You must publish your review to your blog by March 17, 2009.

Once you have published your review, email winscholarships@scholarshippoints.com with the subject “Blogging for Dollars” and include 1) the URL of your blog post 2) the email address associated with your ScholarshipPoints account. All points will be posted directly to your account on or shortly after the March 17 deadline. In plenty of time to load up on the $10K drawing!

Don’t Have a Blog?

If you don’t have a blog, start one! There are many free, quick, and easy to use blogging platforms. A few of the most popular ones are:

• Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs.
• LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
• MovableType is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart.
• Typepad – paid hosted blogging platform. You can host your blog on yourname.typepad.com or yourname.com.
• Wordpress is an open source blog publishing application.
• Don’t forget to check with your school to see if they offer students blogs.

Get Blogging!

Hey guys,

So what would you say if we were proposing a new video contest?  I thought Scholarship Idol was a hit last year.  For those of you unaware of this hilarious video series, you can watch some of last years entrants here.

The rules were, you submitted a 60 second or less video of you doing something creative about ScholarshipPoints.  Some Points members sang songs, some performed interpretive dances and some made Flash animations.  There was a submission period for several weeks, and the videos with the most views on YouTube at the end of that period made it to the top 10.  Submitting a video got you 125 points.  Getting into the top 10 automatically got you a cool Flip Cam personal video recorder.

Those top 10 videos were then voted on by you points members (for 25 points).

Take a look at last year’s winning video by Adrian here! Think you can beat it?

We wanna do it again, that’s for sure, but we want to make the ‘09 version bigger and better than ever.  We have a couple different ideas, so take this short (really short, like 3 questions short) survey for points, and we’ll use your results to determine this year’s contest!

-Captain J

Code is in the survey here

P.S. – Since the first 3 Universum $1,000 Scholarship winners haven’t responded, we’ve selected NEW WINNERS!  See if your name is in the bunch on the winners page.

Just so everyone is aware, the January $1,000 Universum Winner has been drawn!!

So GO CHECK THE WINNERS PAGE FOR YOUR NAME.  In 3 days, I’m picking new scholarship winners.  Still waiting to hear back from a bunch of you!

note: You can only win if you see your name on the page and e-mail me at members@scholarshippoints.com with the subject heading I AM A WINNER.

That is all,

Captain J

Oh, fine: LEMMEWINN