Paying for Graduate School

With my acceptance letter from graduate school came an information packet on websites for finding scholarships. I’ve found this information very helpful because I desperately need money for graduate school. I got accepted and I guess I just thought the money would fall out of the sky because I didn’t have any real plan to pay the tuition bills. I’m stretching just to get the downpayment on tuition and housing paid. And that’s just my first and probably cheapest bill!
The situation isn’t too dire for this year. I do have some money put away that I can access when I need to. And hopefully I’ll get enough loan money and some financial aid so that I won’t have to dip into my bank account too much. I’m mainly worried about the future years. The total money I will have to pay for grad school is around 38,000 dollars and I have less than a third of that in the bank and no job. Plus I have to pay for supplies and food while I live on campus.
I’m filling out as many essays as I can to apply for scholarships. There are scholarships for everything: art students, civil rights ideals, homosexuals and allies, writers, etc. If I just get at least a few that would be great. Well, that’s all for now. I’ll post again in a few days.