Here’s some info you might not know! When you apply for a student loan, you are also applying for a Canada Millennium Scholarship Bursary (CMS). It’s available for full-time students who have the highest assessed need and who meet all the program’s eligibility requirements.
If you’re enrolled in an eligible undergraduate program at a post-secondary institution in Canada and are at least 60% of the way through the year, you could earn a Millennium Award that will reduce your student loan debt. All you have to do is make sure your Pre-Study Report is completed and that you’re working hard in school!
The bursary amount varies by province. For instance, every year in Nova Scotia $8,600,000 is invested in this program, with approximately 3700 award recipients. I did some math, and that equals an average of $2,324 per recipient!
The awards are distributed according to the level of assessed need. So don’t be surprised if you are happily nearing graduation only to be told that as much as $2300 of your student loan doesn’t need to be paid back!
More information at: https://studentloands.ednet.ns.ca/cms01.shtml
Oh man. I’ve run out of time to show you the rest of the posts I’ve got lined up for this week, but these SCAD shorts are just killing me. Short, monthly videos by the Savannah College of Art and Design, these videos comprise film, special effects, animation, acting, sculpting (see the pencil face above!), and so much more.
Each month there’s a naming contest for the newest short.
To top it all off, each video has a behind-the-scenes section as well where you can see them setting up the shots. I just love behind the scenes 
SCAD Shorts »
Images can be found just about everywhere on the mighty internet. Below you’ll find some interesting gateways to larger image collections. Some are for free, some ask for hard bucks. Some are copyrighted, others are not or even others have a Creative Commons license. If you have located an image somewhere in the digital chaos of the world wide web, always check the conditions of use.
How to Find Images Online » [via kottke.org]
LiveSurface is a resource for ad/packaging/product designers. Each high-quality photo comes with pre-built layer masks, vanishing-point planes, shadows, highlights… all organized layer-by-layer. They are expensive singly but if you did a lot of product design you would do well to buy some of their packages.
LiveSurface Packages–> [via swissmiss]