I pray that someday, God will empower me to start something similar to what @AskMichaelTaiwo started a few years ago (@MtScholarships) dedicating a portion of his income to supporting graduates looking for scholarships. 🙏🏾❤️
But I’d love to do mine a little differently. I want to target top-performing students from my former secondary school and support them through their university education.
Access to funding for higher education is a big issue where I come from, and I pray God empowers me to make a difference someday. 🙏🏾
For now, I still dey find money to feed my family 😭😭😭😂
My scholarship in Germany wasn’t fully funded, per se, but it was enough to support my two-year Master’s program and secure my visa.
I was receiving €860 per month for 12 months. However, my cost of living in the city where I studied was only around €400–€450 per month at the time. So, with proper budgeting, I was able to stretch the scholarship over the two years without having to do much student work.
Dear anonymous lady, I would not simply tell you to “lower your standards.”
I would advise you to separate standards from preferences.
Character, kindness, shared values, emotional maturity, work ethic, financial responsibility and the ability to carry responsibility are standards.
“He must earn more than I do” is a preference.
It is not an illegitimate preference, but as your income rises, the number of men who satisfy it necessarily becomes smaller.
You are entitled to retain that preference, but you should understand the trade-off.
Income matters in marriage.
However, “earns more than me” is often a crude proxy for what you may truly need: stability, ambition, discipline, generosity, competence and compatible expectations about money and family life.
A man’s current salary is only one data point in what could become a life long partnership.
Is he diligent?
Does he manage money responsibly?
Does he have direction?
Can he celebrate your success without feeling diminished by it?
Will he carry his share of the family’s responsibilities?
Can you agree on the kind of home you want to build?
A man can earn more than you and still be a terrible husband.
Another can earn less and be secure, responsible, industrious and an excellent life partner.
But let me be equally honest: if you know that you would struggle to admire or respect a husband who earns less than you, do not marry one while pretending that it does not matter.
That would eventually be unfair to both of you.
Either reconsider the preference sincerely or accept that keeping it may mean a smaller pool and possibly a longer search.
The pattern I noticed is common in elite professional circles for a reason.
Career success and traditional pairing dynamics often pull in opposite directions.
You can have both, but it usually requires intentionality, earlier prioritisation of partnership, and realistic expectations about the market.
Ignoring the data does not make the data disappear.
Wishing you clarity, not just a husband.
(The right one is worth the wait but the clock is also real.)
Most people don’t realize how incredibly real it is to do something you love, something that you wake up so damn excited for. I wish that for all of you. ❤️
They told you a 2.2 disqualifies you from scholarships.
That's a lie.
My mentee Celestine is now in the US on a fully funded Master's — study gap and all.
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