u/Adept_Case2023

Been trying to find scholarships for next semester and every website just sends me to the same giant scholarships everybody already knows about. I will make an account, fill everything out and then realize I have seen the exact same scholarship on three other sites already.

Starting to get tired of bouncing between random scholarship websites trying to remember which sites are even legit anymore, what I already applied to and which ones are even worth spending time on. Half my bookmarks are scholarship pages at this point and its turning into a mess. There seriously should be an easier way to do this that helps students find scholarships without making everything so confusing to keep up with.

I have like six different apps, three notepads, two calendars, and a whiteboard that nobody looks at, and I still somehow miss deadlines that felt impossible to forget two days ago. I track everything. I have reminders set. I even color coded things because I thought that would help and now I just have a very organized panic.

At this point I genuinely think the system isn't the problem. The problem is my brain decided that if I write something down I can just delete it from my memory permanently. Like it's in the cloud now, it's fine, I don't need to think about it anymore.

So how are people actually staying on top of deadlines without just accepting that burnout is part of the deal, Is there actually a solution that doesn't involve becoming obsessive about checking things or is this just the human condition we have to suffer through?

Also if anyone says the answer is a spreadsheet I need you to know that I have a spreadsheet. It is beautiful. Nobody reads it, including me, but its there and its organized.