You know what pisses me off?

When people assume affluence based on skin-color and the financial bracket the IRS says that you're in.

Sometimes I wish I was NOT a white male in good health with a middle-class family.

Why?

Because then getting money to help with college would be a breeze.

Maybe if I was a food-stamp-fed- midget-female-immigrated-Samoan-with-three-eyeballs-and-no-legs I could get a few bucks from the government for higher education.

Alas, I'm not, so I have to do an insane amount of paperwork, give the government all my parents' tax information, as well.

I have to say that I'm dependent, even though I haven't been for the past three years, almost.

I have to go through these long lists of available scholarships, and automatically ignore 80% of them because I'm not an African-American in a nursing program or an Italian immigrant looking to be an aircraft mechanic or other crap like that.

www.fccj.edu/scholarships

Look them up. Ridiculous.

Just because I'm a middle-class white male the government thinks I can pay for every dime of college myself? Or my parents can?

It's hogwash. Maybe I can check to see if there are any "I'm Adopted" scholarships, because obviously, using something "unique" about yourself is the only way to get ahead in life. While I'm at it I'll move back to Jacksonville, get on unemployment, and start collecting food stamps. THEN I can afford to get back in school, because the government will feel sorry for me and pay for everything!! Yay!!!

This is crap.