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Weekly Contest #70
There can only be one.Those are the words that echo in my head as our class teacher, Mrs. Afolabi, talks about the prestigious Ganiyat Sadau Scholarship, which will get one lucky student into Fairfield University in the UK, on the first day of class.The requirements are straightforward: excellent grades. Recommendations from five teachers. An exemplary record of behavior. A thousand-word essay based on the topic, "How Would You Change the World?"It's everything I could have ever hoped for.Victory, my best friend, winks at me from the seat be...
Weekly Contest #69
To break your father's heart, you must come prepared. But if you're anything like me, you're already used to the process. My decision to study biology, instead of something business or economics-adjacent--or at the least, law--was the first blow. If not for the seventy-five percent scholarship, and my mother's pleading, I might have had to pay my own way through school. Also, I suppose my father thought that, somewhere along the line, I would see reason and come back into the fold, which was why he eventually relented. To be fair to my...
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