Digital Wandering

Thousands of soon-to-be students are hunting for extra financial assistance for college tuition. Without a perfect SAT score or the ability to run a sub 4.5 forty yard dash, you might find your chances of securing a scholarship aren?t looking too bright. However, you might not realize that your odd talent or hobby may make you the perfect applicant for one of these 15 strange but real scholarships.Oink, Oink Has your room been compared to a sty? Are you comfortable living in a messy habitat? These aren?t requirements for a scholarship, but they are attributes of the creatures you care about ? pigs! If you?re interested in creatures of the bovine persuasion, this is the scholarship for you; the International Boar Semen (IBS) Scholarship is available for those interested in swine management. For more information, visit piggene.com/IBS/ibs_home.htm.The Next Generation of . . . Klingons Trekkies, leave your capes, figurines, posters and other memora Scholarships for High School Seniors bilia behind. Just bring, well, yourself! Klingon Language Institute, in an effort to promote language study, awards one lucky winner a $500 Kor Memorial Scholarship?but don?t worry, fluency in Klingon is not a requirement. Check out the requirements for this scholarship at: kli.org/scholarship/. Think Tall Thoughts You?ve got Michael Jordan?s stature but you?re about as agile as a water buffalo. That?s okay with Tall Clubs International! Males over 6?2? and females above 5?8? are encouraged to apply. The reward is no small (pun intended) amount either; Tall.org awards a whopping $1,000 scholarship to the winner. Find more info at: www.tall.org. Yo, Shorti! For the vertically challenged, the Billy Barty Foundation offers scholarships to students of ?short stature?. Similarly, the Little People of America awards students ? and their families ? scholarships. To join, members must be 4?10? and shorter. Scholarship amounts range from $250 to $1000.