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Did you see the ZoomPanel $1,000 Scholarship? Its open to just the first 1,000 ScholarshipPoints members and then its closing. It will be the easiest $1,000 college scholarship ever for somebody and your odds are better than ever.

All you have to do is register for ZoomPanel (a points-for-surveys site like us) and then complete a short welcome survey. You’ll get entered for the $1,000 plus get 25 Scholarship Points after the scholarship fills up.The whole thing takes 10 minutes and once we have 1,000 entrants it over!

To register to win you must complete the following 2 steps:

1. Complete the registration with ZoomPanel
2. Activate your registration by completing the short survey they will email you afterwards (may take a few minutes to get it)

They’ll send us a list of the 1,000 members who completed both steps and we’ll choose a random winner and then mail everybody their code for 25 points.

Want to know more about ZoomPanel first?

ZoomPanel is a community of consumers who share their opinions and insights about companies’ products and services by participating in market research studies. They award members with points for completing surveys which they may use for popular movies, music and more. Membership is free, and if you change your mind about wanting to participate in ZoomPanel, you can cancel at any time.

We wouldn’t recommend them if they weren’t offering a sweet deal for you. We all signed up ourselves!

Review the ScholarshipPoints and ZoomPanel Scholarship Terms & Conditions

Hi everyone,

I tried not to stoop down to Point Guard and Professor Plastic’s level and bribe you with points to request me on MySpace, but if you can’t beat em, join em. So if you friend me on MySpace (or already friended me) I will send you a special points code. This is the first time I am publicly displaying my MySpace URL (unlike Point Guard who posts it every chance he gets), so check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/sallyscholar

Please make sure you have the correct contact information listed with us. You can check it by logging into the website and clicking on “My Account” on the top left.

People do win and don’t get their prizes sometimes because of wrong or missing contact information. This month our first place winner Katy Ritchie got her $1,000 but our first and second runner ups didn’t give us accurate information and so they both forfeited their iTunes Gift Certificates. We tried to reach them but couldn’t get them. That’s really too bad since they went to the trouble to earn points and enter the May College Scholarship.

Don’t let it happen to you. Prizes are increasing as are the number of winners every month. Sooner or later it could be you.

Oh and sign up as a friend on my MySpace page for special point codes. http://www.myspace.com/pointsteam

PG

People have been asking me lately what the deal is with Professor Plastic. Basically here’s the thing- he and I are exact opposites and I have no idea what his name means. I embody all that is good and just in this world and he is pretty much evil and creepy. We’re opposites in many other areas too like I have hair, I have friends, I live in a house, I have 10 toes, I get paid to do my job- and I could go on. Him, not so much. He is the Joker to my Batman, the Lex Luthor to my Superman, the Green Goblin to my Batman the Anakin to my Obi Wan.

So why do we work together you might ask? Well, Professor just came upstairs to the office one day from the soup kitchen downstairs and sat down at a desk. For awhile we let him eat his soup and didn’t bother him except to spray him with Lysol when the fruit flies got thick. After awhile we decided he had to start doing something to at least pay for the Lysol if he was going to be here so we let him start helping with Scholarship Points. Back then the program was very small but now that the program is blowing up- so isn’t Professor’s ego. Now he thinks he’s running the show! I had to bring in Sally to keep track of him. She sits across from him with a spray bottle and when he gets out of line she sends a jet of water into his face. Professor hates that.

Still, his oddness is somewhat endearing. It may be a bit of Stockholm Syndrome (look it up) but I find his shenanigans and personality interesting to have around and I hope you enjoy his bizarre Wednesday trivia. The goal is to make it fun to earn chances at free college scholarships. Not everybody can win so if everybody at least has fun then it helps me meet my goals.

I think we’re heading for a Guitar Hero dual. Comment “ROCK ON” if you’d like to see me take him down!

Hey Pointers this is a blog that can help you so pay attention. Did you know that I have a MySpace profile you can join? On my MySpace page there is a code for 10 points and on Fridays I usually post a code on my MySpace blog for more points. Only my friends can see it and it isn’t available on this site! So check me out and also let me know what you want me to add to make it even cooler (if that’s even possible). http://www.myspace.com/pointsteam

Starting with May’s drawing we are now going to give away prizes to the runners-up. You see each month we draw three names in case we can’t get in touch with the first name we draw. I always feel bad not doing anything with the names of the runners-up to let them know how close they were. Well now we’re going to give the first runner-up a $15 iTunes gift certificate and the second runner-up a $10 iTunes gift certificate! You will get them sent to you via email. This month the winners are:

• · $1,000 Scholarship Winner: Kay Ritchie
• · 1^st Runner-up iTunes Winner: Andrew Trimble
• · 2^nd Runner-up iTunes Winner: Alexander Myton

Finally we’ve settled on a regular pattern of points activities and they will be posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday so be sure to check back. Not all activities will be left up for a long time so its important that you check frequently.

- Point Guard

Freshman year of college was a completely new and foreign experience. Aside from having the ability to do virtually whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, I actually had responsibilities. No one made sure I did my homework, or even went to class for that matter. And laundry certainly didn’t wash itself. At first I had so much free time I didn’t know what to do with myself. But soon enough I felt like I had zero time. Not even enough to sleep. All of those things just took some getting used to, well, maybe a lot of getting used to. But eventually I learned to get by, and take care of myself and all of my responsibilities- or at least most of them.

I am not quite sure where it started: whether it was the online shopping, the countless nights of ordering Domino’s, the tanning packages or the infamous trips to BK and Panera Bread, I do not know. But before I knew it, I had a negative balance in my account after the first half of the semester. I had received a scholarship to pay for my books, so this debt did not even include my expensive schoolbooks! Now you are probably thinking, what was the initial balance? Well friends, I went into first semester of freshman year with $2,000.

The first thing you must understand, especially if you have not experienced freshman year of college yet, is the amount of money you spend depends on two things: your school, and how well (or how awful) you are at managing your finances. The bad part is, my school has a suburban campus, and we never really go into a city or to the bars. Everything you need is pretty much on campus, except for a few fraternity houses. Anyways, the depletion of my funds was entirely due to my obliviousness. I put no thought into how many times we ordered Domino’s, how much I was spending on online clothes stores, or how much those monthly tanning packages really were. Sure, there is no harm in spending money, it’s a lot of fun and you can get some great stuff! The harm comes from carelessly spending money. The little things add up. For me, they added up to $2,000 in 5 weeks.

So if you are in charge of your own money in college, a word from the wise: Keep track of your balance. Don’t make the same mistake I did. It was stressful for me because I did not have online banking, and had to physically go home (stressful for my parents) to rejuvenate my account. What’s worse was that I had to take out the money I saved for second semester and use it for the second half of my first semester. This meant I had to be EXTRA careful during second semester, and I didn’t have as much money to spend on things I actually needed, like books! So, do yourself and your parents a favor by being smart with your money, and always keeping track of your finances. Thanks for reading! You deserve a code. Here it is: “MODINERO”

Yours truly,

Sally Scholar

Hi everyone at ScholarshipPoints.com! My  name is Sally Scholar! I am here not only to mediate the feuds between Professor Plastic and Point Guard, but to provide you with more opportunities to win scholarships!

I’d say I’m your typical college girl… I looove shopping! But, as you will soon learn in my next blog, I no longer shop online for clothes :(. Instead, I spend my time shopping online for scholarships, which led me to discover www.scholarshippoints.com. When I am not visiting ScholarshipPoints.com, you can usually find me on my Facebook or Myspace pages. If I am not there, then I am most likely cruising the streets in my pink Jeep Wrangler with my cat. My cat’s name is Dinero, so who couldn’t love him?! Besides loving my cat, I LOVE the color pink, as you probably could tell from my car.

Well, I think that is all you need to know for now. Keep a lookout for my blog posts, there just may be a code hiding in there for you……

Happy point hunting!

*Sally Scholar & Dinero*

Like Luke vs. Vader, Rocky vs. Apollo, Tiger vs. Phil, or the BoSox vs. the Yankees we now have a new rivalry to add to the pantheon of greats, Point Guard vs. Professor Plastic!

There is certainly no love lost between these two titans of the scholarship points universe as each tries to one up each other every chance they get. Of course these battles benefit the scholarship points members as they end up awarding more point opportunities.

Just last week Point Guard awarded 10 points to be his MySpace friend. That’s the only way he can get friends - by bribing them! Professor Plastic stimulates the mind with some top notch triva challenges each Wednesday.

Well, as a thank you to all his adoring fans Professor Plastic is giving away 12 points when you become his friend on MySpace for a limited time. You will find the code in his blog section entitled Special Points Code.

You will not find this offer on the Earn Points page, which is why you are getting 12 and not 10 points. The professor likes to reward those who go the extra mile.

To be Professor Plastic’s friend and earn 12 points just copy and paste the link below.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=382551715

There is a new Scholarship Point activity up today I hope you jump all over like the spider monkeys that you are. I’m trying to test out an online degree search tool where you can request information from the program of your choice. With the increasing popularity and acceptance on online degrees you all ought to at least find out about them. Imagine graduating from college, getting a job and getting an MBA online instead of spending more time poor and scavenging for scholarship money.

Swing on over Tarzan and check out the survey activity page to give it a whirl.

We’re giving away scholarship points like candy these days! Granted candy may taste better, but at least scholarship points won’t go to your hips and can be used to increase your chances of winning money!!! Then with your $1,000 scholarship that will free up some cash for you to invest in a few Hershey, Snickers, and Kit Kat bars. See how it all comes full circle? Let’s look at that equation; SP = $ = C

It’s really so easy to scoop up points, like ice cream from a big delicious tub. I could go for some Oreo Cookie ice cream right now actually. Perhaps I should start writing my blogs after lunch.

For a list of all point earning opportunities you can visit http://www.scholarshippoints.com/scholarship-contests/

This is no trick; it is a mighty nice treat!