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Clash of Clans!Yes. This app (game) has changed my life.​After 12th I dropped a year and enrolled for medical coaching. I was almost certain of cracking the entrance test. But someone introduced me to this game someday and I began to play this game. Which resultedAddiction: I gradually became so addicted that even in class I was playing.Sleep cycle destruction: Due to the different time zone of various clan there was no specific time for war. Besides Also wanted to upgrade things up so had to look for loot and raid. So most days I played till 4 am at night.No time for loved one: There arrived a time where this game was more important than gf. She used to call, I used to ignore. Didn't talk with family members well as well.Battery drain: You have to keep the screen on constantly in order to avoid raid. Which drains battery faster than anything.Now after 8 months of playing I reached Th9 (almost max). But the resources need to upgrade troops and buildings was damn high. Either You need to play 24 x 7 or you need to spend money to buy gem. Later one was impossible for me being a middle class boy and there was neither enough loot to upgrade stuffs. Gradually I began to lose interest and stopped playing.BUTI lost my 8 months of crucial time. I would've cracked entrance test if I studied instead of playing this game.Broke up with gf as didn't give time, even didn't talk for 5 mins. Even if she called during attack I scolded her badly.Sleep cycle screwed up.THAT DEFINITELY CHANGED MY LIFE.

I'm an undocumented immigrant originally from South Korea currently residing in California. I landed in San Francisco prior to 9/11 on a travel visa with my parents and my sibling. We left South Korea in hopes for a better education (I will not explain education culture of South Korea in this post), and unfortunately we did not have family members that could help us get a green card (via family relation). However, a family friend had offered a green card sponsorship and wanted to help us settle. Through various visa changes after the travel visa expired, we were en route to a green card. My father paid international student tuition for the duration of this green card application (12 years) in order for my family to retain legal status. By the time I graduated high school, we received a rejection notice from USCIS. The reason? Our sponsors were financially ineligible to sponsor us in the first place; they had been falsifying their income for tax evasion, and from their reported income, they were legally ineligible to sponsor my family. Needless to say, my family's relationship with our sponsors have plummeted to terrible terms. My family scrounged together the last bit of our savings for a lawyer to help our appeal, which was also rejected 2 years later.The 12 years of waiting for the green card was extremely dreadful. We found out about our sponsor's tax evasion earlier on and attempted to correct their mistakes, begging them to report a correct amount. My dad fell to alcoholism. Every day for the 12 years, my dad woke up in the morning and stared at the Case Status website punching our case number in, refreshing to see if we could possibly be accepted any sooner. I don't want to remember the day we found out about our rejection.After the rejection, my family was unemployed, drained of our savings, and exhausted from life in America. Within the 12 years of waiting in this land, my sister and I had lost a lot of our native language and were completely assimilated in US culture. When my father's F-1 visa finally expired from graduation and exhaustion of OPT, nobody wanted to leave-- we had no home to go back to, we had no money to support ourselves. We became visa-overstays, and this is one of the common ways to become undocumented in this country. My parents worked under the table at various restaurants, often working full-time or over-time. There exists heavy exploitation and discrimination of undocumented workers within every community, and we were subject to this. No complaints, as long as we worked to keep our family together. We paid our taxes every year.I enrolled at a nearby community college with the help of AB540, a California Assembly Bill that allows immigrants who meet certain standards to pay resident tuition at colleges and universities. There, I learned that there were others like me, that there were communities willing to support me. I learned to give to my community, just as I received from others. Throughout my years at this college, I organized various events promoting funding for higher education, immigration rights, and LGBTQ rights, and participated heavily in a campaign for a local measure that funded my community college. Shortly after, I transferred to a UC and received my Bachelors in Computer Science, fighting urges to switch my major to something I loved (English, Asian American Studies, Art.)Currently, I’m waiting for my application for DACA (mentioned in other answers) to fall through. I don’t drive, I can’t work. I’ve been receiving help all my life from my friends (driving me around, buying me food) and I would absolutely love to work as a front-end engineer so I could really give back to the communities that supported me.(Thanks for all your upvotes and comments, I'm really humbled. And for those of you who are sharing, thanks even more!)

There’s no way to tell, but likely nothing.At least in my experience, the majority of financial aid you will receive will be from the college itself in the form of a financial aid package (the smaller envelope/email that comes after your acceptance letter/email). This is applied directly to your tuition and possibly room and board. Usually this contains merit based financial aid and may be either a yearly sum that can be renewable depending on your college GPA, or loans. You may have to formally “accept” this amount, such as logging into your student portal every year and checking the financial aid that you wish to receive for the coming year (this is useful if you do not wish to accept the loans).Some colleges/universities are more generous than others. Apply accordingly if this is an issue.There are usually “financial aid calculators” available at University’s websites that when you put in your information reveal how much money you may receive. I cannot vouch for their reliability, but it’s a useful tidbit when deciding where to apply if money is low for applications.There may be other scholarships available at your school that would require a separate application from your enrollment application be sure to look for those. Oftentimes freshmen do not think to look for these.You can also apply for other scholarships not through your school like from private organizations.Also, make sure you fill out the FAFSA. This will not take your grades into account. Anything you receive from here will be due to your expected family contribution. It’s open now. Even if your family earns a lot of money, you may still be eligible for loans, and it can also be used to qualify you for work-study.Bottom line, if you are graduating this year, you have already applied to most of the schools you are going to and will likely not receive additional aid from your college of choice. You may be able to call the college and explain your financial strain and due to your good grades they may revise your financial aid package, but that’s a long shot. Furthermore, not to be discouraging, but while getting A’s and B’s in your last year of high school is commendable especially with the temptation to slack off, it alone will not automatically qualify you for more financial aid.As for graduating early- I don’t see it having any effect. Many students do qualify to graduate early and instead they stay in high school getting college credit through AP courses or taking courses for free at local colleges. That being said, how you choose to spend those free 3 months can be beneficial. You could spend your time volunteering and write about that incredibly valuable, life changing, eye opening experience you had on future scholarship applications.The only other thing I can reasonably see it doing is raising your GPA enough to qualify you for additional private scholarships. Check your workplace, check online, check your parents’ workplaces, check your electric company- check everything, especially local. They are out there, and a lot of their deadlines are coming up, so get busy, and good luck!