Come out and support USFs Asian Students in America’s Annual Charity Date Auction!
The Date Auction will be held on March 12 TENTATIVELY
MSC 3707 (Third Floor)
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Event is free, no admission fees
Free foods and drinks
It is a formal event so dress to impress!

Proceeds will go towards Moffitt Cancer Center. By bidding on the auctioneers, you will be contributing to the prevention and cure of cancer. With more than 215,000 Americans estimated to be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2008, we want to do our part to fight this disease by donating and launching an awareness and education initiative addressing the facts surrounding lung cancer.

ENTERTAINMENT
Special performances and entertainment perform by local clubs and students. Come out and support the Asian community at University of South Florida

VIDEO COMPETITION
This is our 1st ever Video Competition. The winner is be determine by the audience and will be rewarded with a prize. The video competition is open to everyone and not only for members. Please contact us if you are interested in entering the contest and or want to know more information.

GROUP DATE
The Group Date scheduled for Sunday, March 15th.
Those auctioned off and their buyers are able to participate in our Group Date!
The Event will be a daylong event where we will be visiting the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Canoeing, and having a bonfire at a beach house later in the evening. There will be food provided and everything will be free. This event is only for those that participated at the Date Auction.

During my senior year of high school I was quite the scholarship seeker. I would have tons of envelopes full of transcripts that needed to be shipped off to scholarship donors. Most of them never replied, but I did win a scholarship with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, which got back to me during my first semester in college. It really is the best feeling winning a scholarship after trying so hard.

I have lots of things I still want to do though, such as studying abroad and school is still a financial burden so the search has continued onward. I received an e-mail today inviting me to take a survey and be entered in a University 2009 sweepstakes for possible cash prizes and scholarships. When I finished the survey I was invited to earn points on a website called ScholarshipPoints.

Intrigued, I clicked into the site and discovered a scholarship site based off earning points, a concept I have never seen before in all my scholarship searching. You can earn points by doing activities, searching around for secret postings, and even getting involved in their various social networking efforts on Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace.

It’s an interesting new approach to win scholarships that might require a learning curve for those less technologically savvy (searching message boards and looking through facebook discussions may be the most challenging of things), but it’s a nice change from writing essays, mailing transcripts that cost you money to acquire, and pestering people for letters of recommendation. I’ll certainly be checking it out some more and plan to enter their upcoming scholarships in my quest to scholarship money and you should as well.

http://www.scholarshippoints.com/

P.S. If you’d like to help me out by giving me some referrer points send your e-mail address over to usfblogger@gmail.com and I’ll happily send you a referral. I promise I’ll never spam your e-mail inbox with anything else.

You enter college almost instantly incurring debt and financial hardship. Businesses know this is so, so they take their chances to lure you into bad working conditions, scams, and try to pull moves they know would never work with a regular adult. If you’re a student living in Florida, you know that gasoline is pretty much food, you will get nowhere without a car and gasoline.

You see “make tons of money” and see student testimonials that they survived college thanks to these employment scams. What you don’t see is all the hours those students put in just to make small amounts of money that they could have easily made somewhere else in half the time. You don’t see the things that student had to pay for that forced them to stay in such conditions.

Since entering college, I have came slightly close to entering these employment situations. I usually at least give a job opportunity a shot, but once I start to sense a scam I quickly pull out. “It’s an opportunity you’ll regret” they say. I don’t think so. It is much better than joining up and they quitting a few weeks later because I have been pulled into a scam. One big red flag for me is sales jobs that require you to buy the merchandise and then re-sell it to others. They don’t count on you selling it so much as they count on you buying the goods and then being stuck with it until you pay it off and owe them money in the process.

I also hate it when friends try and lure you into these traps. On one side they are just trying to get by and make money too. On the other, it’s just plain selfish for friends to think just because they got swindled into something that they should try and make you a part of it. I think one of the worst parts is that the people who are really struggling really have no choice and these business owners feel no shame in what they do to others and how they treat employees.

This could be said to be a major problem in Florida in general. The lack of many unions in Florida and employee rights leaves even people in successful positions frequently in situations that should not be tolerated at all by employment laws. Companies that have the nerve to rub it in peoples faces that because of the economic conditions are bad that they will do whatever they want to employees deserve bankruptcy.