The Barometer Online

By now the majority of us have some bills to pay, be it rent, cable, internet, cell phone, electricity or any of the many others. You might have noticed when you subscribe for utilities you get some kind of "special" or a "deal" for a certain amount of time.

Our culture's obsession with the thin ideal has created a society that has a fear of fat. This fear has resulted in increasingly higher numbers of eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disturbances, while being an accomplice in the increase of other psychological disorders like depression, anxiety and body dysmorphic disorder.

If you were told that you had a one in five chance of winning the lottery, how much would you spend on tickets? If you had little money to invest in a ticket, would you put in an hour of your time? What if there was a chance you were the only one who had bought a ticket? Many scholarships go unclaimed each year because applicants assume their chances of getting funding are low.