[Lucid:]

Yeah, my parents made too much money and I was only able to get loans. But now that I'm married I don't have to put in my parents' financial information, only my own. I hate how the government expects that parents who aren't dirt poor will pay for their kid's college. I have other siblings who need taken care of!

I was supposed to write three short essays. I think the prompts were "write a biographical sketch about yourself," "Write about any jobs or clubs or community service you have been involved in," and "If you could go back and change one thing in your life, what would it be?" For the last one, I only wrote two or three sentences saying something like I don't want to change anything because both the positive and negative experiences make me who I am. I don't know if that's why they picked me or not, but my other two essays were just kinda blah and I wasn't expecting to win.