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I'm a Psychology student from Leiden University in the Netherlands, running short on my tuition fee. If I don't pay the last installments on my tution I will have to drop out. The world owes me nothing, but I owe myself to exhaust every last possibility to continue my studies and make my dream come true.
I'm currently an Honors student, with above average GPA, hoping to enroll for the second, and penultimate year, in one of the best programs in the field. I loved my first year at the university, as I discovered the love of my life: Psychology and Neuroscience. Have you ever felt in your bones that you are supposed to do something, you are supposed to be someone, and the world doesn't make sense otherwise? That's what this school, this field is to me.
I've been working two jobs full time for the past three years, and the last year my 40 hours online job and my school work has taken all of my time. I'm not complaining. How can I have a personal life when I can work to become a behavioral neuroscientist in hopefully less than 3-4 years? I need to do this, and I know I can. I have the strength, the will, the motivation. Unfortunately, no matter how much money I saved, because of an unfortunate family situation, I'm running short on the last two installments this year. This means, "sorry, but you can't enroll for the second year". I looked for grants, for scholarships, for loans, everything the whole year, but my situation is a bit unfortunate. I'm a non European in a European university. Probably most people don't know that this means I have to pay six times the amount of other Europeans in my program (there was 105 of us, I was the only non European), that I couldn't get a job in the Netherlands that could pay me more than my online job, and that I couldn't get loans, or scholarships either. As for Albania, well, forget it. My country is in such a poor state at the moment, that there are no scholarships, grants, or loan opportunities the government or banks can offer.
Why should anyone care? I've been asking myself this question for the past four months and I have been psyching myself out of opening this crowdfunding page. I don't think anyone is obliged to care, but I think, as I recently discovered, a lot of people do. Apparently there are people who actually want to help if you ask for help. That has moved me and changed my whole perspective in life. I'm not sick, and I'm not dying, and there are more important causes than mine out there, and yet here I am asking, sort of begging for lack of a better word for some help. I'm not trying to take the easy way out. My friends know how much I've worked to achieve this goal. This is not my first option, this is my last. The only motivation I can give you to help me fund my tuition is that I want to be a neuroscientist, do better things for my life and for others in this world than I would have done in the job I quit a year ago as an account manager in an advertising firm, and that with one small donation, less than the cost of a Starbucks cup of coffee you can literally change my life.
"If you want something in life, reach out and get it" Here's me reaching out!
"When you want something the whole universe conspires to help you achieve it" My friends and friends I haven't met yet are my universe!
I can't at the moment help my family come out of their dire financial situation, but I can make their hard work pay off, by becoming the great person they've always wanted me to be.
I'm currently an Honors student, with above average GPA, hoping to enroll for the second, and penultimate year, in one of the best programs in the field. I loved my first year at the university, as I discovered the love of my life: Psychology and Neuroscience. Have you ever felt in your bones that you are supposed to do something, you are supposed to be someone, and the world doesn't make sense otherwise? That's what this school, this field is to me.
I've been working two jobs full time for the past three years, and the last year my 40 hours online job and my school work has taken all of my time. I'm not complaining. How can I have a personal life when I can work to become a behavioral neuroscientist in hopefully less than 3-4 years? I need to do this, and I know I can. I have the strength, the will, the motivation. Unfortunately, no matter how much money I saved, because of an unfortunate family situation, I'm running short on the last two installments this year. This means, "sorry, but you can't enroll for the second year". I looked for grants, for scholarships, for loans, everything the whole year, but my situation is a bit unfortunate. I'm a non European in a European university. Probably most people don't know that this means I have to pay six times the amount of other Europeans in my program (there was 105 of us, I was the only non European), that I couldn't get a job in the Netherlands that could pay me more than my online job, and that I couldn't get loans, or scholarships either. As for Albania, well, forget it. My country is in such a poor state at the moment, that there are no scholarships, grants, or loan opportunities the government or banks can offer.
Why should anyone care? I've been asking myself this question for the past four months and I have been psyching myself out of opening this crowdfunding page. I don't think anyone is obliged to care, but I think, as I recently discovered, a lot of people do. Apparently there are people who actually want to help if you ask for help. That has moved me and changed my whole perspective in life. I'm not sick, and I'm not dying, and there are more important causes than mine out there, and yet here I am asking, sort of begging for lack of a better word for some help. I'm not trying to take the easy way out. My friends know how much I've worked to achieve this goal. This is not my first option, this is my last. The only motivation I can give you to help me fund my tuition is that I want to be a neuroscientist, do better things for my life and for others in this world than I would have done in the job I quit a year ago as an account manager in an advertising firm, and that with one small donation, less than the cost of a Starbucks cup of coffee you can literally change my life.
"If you want something in life, reach out and get it" Here's me reaching out!
"When you want something the whole universe conspires to help you achieve it" My friends and friends I haven't met yet are my universe!
I can't at the moment help my family come out of their dire financial situation, but I can make their hard work pay off, by becoming the great person they've always wanted me to be.
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Jonida Sanço
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