I want to help a not so financially stable friend out

[HotelUser]

I've lived for where I am now my entire life and several years ago I became friends with someone called Dimitry. Dimitry's parents used to live in the USSR and his father, against his will, was forced to be involved in a sort of military/policing job in the USSR. Whilst the Union was collapsing his family legitimately escaped. They were permitted entry into another nearby country until they managed ro secure citizenship in Canada. He's always been bad off. Ever since I've known him he's never had an extra dollar to spend anywhere but he absolutely never complains about his financial situation. He currently maintains the highest AP grades in the school (he constantly tells me I should feel blessed to live in a country with such a good education system and I agree with him) but despite this he can't afford to go to University. It has ALWAYS been this guy's dream to help people, and since I met him he has ALWAYS wanted to pursue becoming a doctor (more recently he wishes to go into designing medical equipment for hospitals).

I do not know how scholarships work across the pond but here you have to apply for each one. There are scholarships for woman, pregnant woman, aboriginals and African Canadians. There is a pathetic three Scholarships for white males. Two of which Dimitry cannot apply for because of living circumstances however I found one scholarship which the first step to getting was winning a random draw. I entered Dimitry's name in the draw every day for a long time (as you were allowed to do so) and his name for the scholarship was drawn. Since his name was pulled in this random draw he now has to get the most "votes" on a Facebook page in order to get the scholarship.

It's completely outrageous that they don't give Dimitry a scholarship because of his academics but I'm going to do absolutely everything in my power to make sure he gets the most legitimate votes possible. It's not his fault that his family came to Canada in the conditions that they did, or that he wasn't born in Canada. He's the smartest guy I know and deserves to go to University, end of discussion.

The link to the Facebook voting page is http://on.fb.me/wVrx7H and his name is Dimity Vinogradov. Either he gets this scholarship, or he doesn't go to University and that would actually be one of if not the most unfair thing I've ever witnessed within the proximity of my community in my entire life.

[dbgtz]

I thought you were gonna offer to pay for him then LOL. But good idea to get the message around, I'll vote for him a few times.

[Martin]

Have voted and really hope he gets it. :(

[jasey]

Voted! Thank you for sharing his story.

[Mathew]

Voted. It looks like he's winning so far - I wish him the best of luck! :)

[xxMATTGxx]

I've also voted, good luck to him!

[Shar]

Aww the cutie anything to help Dimitry out. He's a clever lad and deserves that scholarship!!

[FlyingJesus]

*sigh* this is the "equality" that feminism as opposed to true egalitarianism offers us. I'm sure the other applicants are just as worthy but voted for your friend all the same, and wish the best of luck to him wherever his studies take him

[Amberr]

I thought you were gonna offer to pay for him then LOL. But good idea to get the message around, I'll vote for him a few times.

i thought that too when i saw the title.
I've voted for him i really hope he gets it, i'll vote again tomorrow. Best of luck to him :)

[Inseriousity.]

Is there a local paper you could contact bout it? my local paper tends to run these types of stories and isn't all doom and gloom like the national press. i dont have a facebook account but I wish dimitry every success. :)

[Recursion]

Does Canada not have a similar system to Student Finance England?

Surely you can't be expected to pay tuition and living fees all up front?

[-Charityy]

I voted for him :)

[beth]

i find it very sad that someone's educational future will be decided via a facebook poll.

[FlyingJesus]

i find it very sad that someone's educational future will be decided via a facebook poll.

ALL OF LIFE IS A LOTTERY

Check it out I am being profound

[HotelUser]

i find it very sad that someone's educational future will be decided via a facebook poll.

It's not fair at all, especially considering his average is over 95% and he's in three AP courses. If he was a girl, or if he was aboriginal or African-Canadian there would be dozens of scholarships he would be able to get really easily. There's a girl the other year who had a 70% average and got a 40 thousand dollar scholarship. I don't think it's fair that you can get a scholarship for being a girl, or being a certain skin color. I think it should be based off who's willing to work the hardest and who needs the money the most.

[beth]

It's not fair at all, especially considering his average is over 95% and he's in three AP courses. If he was a girl, or if he was aboriginal or African-Canadian there would be dozens of scholarships he would be able to get really easily. There's a girl the other year who had a 70% average and got a 40 thousand dollar scholarship. I don't think it's fair that you can get a scholarship for being a girl, or being a certain skin color. I think it should be based off who's willing to work the hardest and who needs the money the most.

obviously i can't relate as the system here in the uk is basically an education for "everyone", but it is tragic and i hope yr friend succeeds in life whether he gets this scholarship or not.

[Hollie]

I've voted on both of my accounts and I'll vote again tomorrow. :) I hope he gets it! :(

[Aidenn]

Voted and ill continue to do so over the next few days.

[Jordan]

Voted and will continue to do so.

[GirlNextDoor15]

You are very kind to help your friend out. But I'm sure there are thousands of students who have similar problems. And it is really nonsensical at how they pick the best application out. Shouldn't they use interview method or any other better methods? Judging them via polls are extremely unfair as it will be based on popularity. However, I voted for him and I wish him all the best in getting this scholarship. He's very lucky to have a friend like you and trust me. If he's a smart guy, he'll succeed in whatever he wants to do because universities don't mean much nowadays. :)

[Samantha]

Voting for this! I too also thought you were going to pay for him haha.

[wixard]

voted dude

[Red]

voted. that was really sweet! x

[Cerys]

Voted xit's nice that you care and want to help :)

[geo]

Voted for him! I do hope he gets it. :)

[buttons]

aww you're so lovely, i voted him. i looked through the other ones too and some of them have already travelled and had loads of opportunities :/

[HotelUser]

I think one of the other people in the running might be cheating by making new accounts and voting for themselves (I've been keeping track of the time in-between their votes and they've been following a rough pattern). You can vote once a day so I've voted for Dimitry again today although if the other person is cheating he will be doing it again each day. This is going to be a difficult win I think.

[Mathew]

Voted again! If Habbox can win against the other fansite in an awards competition then I'm sure we can do the same here! ;)

[e5]

I've just voted for him, up to 212 now! Hope he gets it, quite a sad story really!

[jasey]

Gutted for Regina at only 13 votes while the rest are ten to twenty times that! At least we know she's not a cheater.

[HotelUser]

Blah, another contestant got 40 votes in around 30 minutes and conveniently stopped after they were about 5 ahead of Dimitry. There's absolutely no way we're going to cheat to win this thing (I think that's probably fraud if we did) but it does suck that he's losing now.

[Mathew]

Let's start a hate campaign towards Mr. Murphy for being a complete and utter moron.

Voted again for Dimitry!

[Red]

voted again! will ask my fam and friends later too x

[Jurv]

I've voted on both of my accounts, let's hope he gets it. :)

[Zuth]

I've just voted for him and will continue to do so, I hope he gets in :(

[Sharon]

honestly i can't believe that a university is actually able to decide someones future with a facebook competition, that's lower than pathetic. voted and i shall continue to.

[Catchy]

Kirsty was telling me about this, I think it's really good you want to help your friend out. I'm going to vote for him soon :)

[jasey]

How do they create so many Facebook accounts to cheat? Doesn't Facebook prohibit you from mass creating accounts? They should.

[Mark]

I've voted and will continue to vote, I'll pass it around also!

[-Billy]

Voting now!

[Elegance]

voted! :)x

[Shockwave.2CC]

I Voted :)

[Grig]

Yeh tough times in the USSR back then- that's how I ended up in Hong Kong. I sympathize highly with his plight and have voted for him.

[Amberr]

Just voted again on both of my accounts and will continue too, i really hope he gets it, so sweet of you to do this for him. i can't believe someone's future is determined over facebook though, it's not fair at all.

[j0rd]

Voted for the guy, best of luck to him too, I bet he deserves it!

[Tom]

I've voted but I find it absolutely ridiculous that it's decided via Facebook if this student does or does not go into University. Based on what you've said he seems like the kind of guy who actually WANTS to do well.

[sophiethenerd]

Voted.
The fact it is decided over facebook is so unfair.
An interview would be the fairest way.

[Gina]

Voted! Best of luck to him :)

[Nick]

I voted, Goodluck to your friend.

[Zuth]

Just voted again, hes winning by 8 votes, good luck!

[Sharon]

Bump - voted again.

He's behind by that ***.

[Shar]

Keep on voting people :)!
-He's behind

[kitten]

Voted him :) Hope he gets it!

[Red]

Someone should do a giveaway on habs or something

[Catchy]

Someone should do a giveaway on habs or something

if noone does one i'll do one tomorrow or something x

[Mark]

Voted again, please keep voting!

[Zuth]

Voted for the 3rd time, we are still loosing :(

[Eric]

Will do whatever to help! Voted!

[geo]

Voting each day and asking others still. Still about 8 behind.

[Grig]

I've just voted again. He's only about 10 off the guy who's in the lead and I saw that guys statement and it said, "In grade eleven, I made one of the best decisions of my life. I decided to join the choir at school. I started out uncertain of myself, singing very quietly, but over time I became more and more confident singing in front of an audience. My added confidence hasn't been limited to singing, as I have noticed throughout my classes that since joining choir I am much more courageous in everything I do. I look to take my newfound confidence with me to Saint Mary's and I welcome the challenges that I may face."

I swear for a Uni statement being in choir is one of the ********* reasons you could find, it has nothing about your course and only gives a very minor and irrelevant aspect of your personal skills. You're friends one if actually really well written, so that's why I hate what the hell this college is doing. You never make this into a popularity contest.

[buttons]

5 behind now

[Catchy]

5 behind now

2 now, the suspense is killing me!

[wixard]

2 now, the suspense is killing me!

you're actually so into this hahahaa

[Mathew]

Voted again and he's winning - for now at least! :D

[DJC4LLY]

Have voted :) hope he gets it ;) I see there is another person catching up with him tho... -_-

[Catchy]

you're actually so into this hahahaa

Me and [@]@red[/@] both are and we think Habbox needs to do something to help! David did work on this site for years the least they could do is help him out by arranging something like an event or give away or something.

[Shar]

winning again, keep it that way, VOTE!

[Zuth]

Voted again but that guy has over 1000?!?!

[Nick]

voted for the 3rd time i think :D

[Grig]

I've voted again, but the other guy seems to have solidified his lead by over 200 votes.

[Lee]

Voted - Good luck Dimitri!

[JerseySafety]

I have been voting everyday and getting several friends to help out. Lets get this guy to the top!

[Zuth]

Voted again, for like the 5th time, still no where near winning! :(

[-Charityy]

I just voted again for this, come on guys... he's pretty far behind but I'm sure we can do this!

[wixard]

would you not post it to reddit or something

[Chippiewill]

would you not post it to reddit or something
This would probably go down quite well in /r/iama actually, it's certainly worth a shot.

[Sharon]

Voted again!

[Stephen]

i think we should all send a tweet to justin bieber asking him to retweet

[Shar]

i think we should all send a tweet to justin bieber asking him to retweet

[@]@xxMATTGxx[/@] do it!!

hes behind again, keep voting guys!

[Sharon]

i think we should all send a tweet to justin bieber asking him to retweet

i'd actually do this but my twitter account is private ughhhhhhh

[Stephen]

this other guy is getting like 200 votes everyday

he totally just sits there 24/7 voting for himself with 200 different accounts

oh well atleast hoteluser got himself 8+ reps out of it

[Eric]

Voted again!

[Mathew]

Voted again but he's about 500 votes behind now... ugh! :(

[Shar]

Voted again, I don't see how he's going to catch up with the other guy now :(

[Zuth]

Voted again, god knows how the other guy has so many votes.

[Sharon]

clearly the other guy is cheating but if you honestly think about it, it's his education on the line too so i can see where he'd be coming from... doesn't make it right though.

i've voted again today.

[Metric1]

it's a ******* tragedy that his university career is left up to people voting on Facebook, but that's Robie St. High for ya hahaha I voted for him, I wasn't about to vote for choir kid or the rest of them loll

[Mathew]

Sigh... I assume the other guy won it then? Such a shame considering the individual in question most likely cheated his way there.. :(

[beth]

you don't specifically know that matt, maybe he just had a good source of people to daily vote for him. i mean if he was getting 200 votes daily, i have 700 friends on facebook. wouldn't be hard to get them to vote.

[jasey]

Oh no - Dmitri didn't win? I am gutted! I was voting pretty much every day I was online. I am so, so sorry. This is not fair.