I need money for graduate school,,,any suggestions?

I have found it exremely difficult to find scholarships or grants for graduate school.  Especially since my field is animation.  If you are studying to be a teacher, especially in math or science, you are golden.  So far, if I am not a mother, been abused or diagnosed with a disease, missing a limb or anything but a plain ol' white girl my only options are loans.  There are a few out there for animation, but only for bachelors degrees.  Its frustrating for me because I work my tail off to make ends meet and cant wrap my head around owing $100,000 in student loans by the time i graduate.  I am a single,healthy, white girl with no children, health issues or a diabolical background and  who makes around $15,000 a year.  I cannot find funding outside loans to help me at all.  My mistake, there is one through Women in Animation and I have already put my application and essay in for that.    So, if any of you stumble across anything for the animation graduate student, please pass it along.     If you tell me what your field is in, I am sure I have info for you.  

I completely agree.  I am trying to find scholarships for online graduate school which is $28,000 and 12 months long and it's in a new and growing field called, Internet Marketing.  Where are these scholarships to try and apply for?  Can anyone help?  It is from www.fullsail.edu I have filled out a couple scholarship websites but have had a 3 year break from my bachelor's and completing the profile is becoming senseless because many required questions do not apply to me.  Is there any funding available outside of loans?  I can't believe this website claims to be #1 in scholarships sites when it doesn't really help returning graduate students who want to get a higher degree.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

WELL, I HAVE BEEN OUT OF COLLEGE SINCE 2000.  I HAVE A BACHELORS IN NURSING.  AFTER RAISING A FAMILY, I FIND IT HARD TO FIND SCHOLARSHIPS AS WELL  FOR A MASTERS DEGREE IN NUSING.  I CANT AFFORD TO TAKE OUT ANY MORE LOANS.  SOMEONE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to Bronko-

I worked in a Hospital and they paid for 1/2 of my tuition. Check out your H. R. department if you work in a hospital or nursing facility.Good luck Kim W.

It's not a good idea, but I'm just going to have to go for more loans. I've finally gotten on Income Contingent Repayment on my undergraduate loans and if I ever hope to be employable AT ALL again I will just have to suck it up and drown farther in loans to get that "necessary" master's degree.

I would go for a teacher education program but even in the sciences I don't want to have all that further education just to stand up in front of a classroom of teenagers who don't respect anyone, especially me; and who won't take me seriously as an adult let alone a science teacher. I have that problem now as a substitute teacher and I don't think that more college so I can be a full-time teacher will change the way people see me. I need to be cloistered up in some back laboratory with a laboratory animal by my side to talk to; one who doesn't think I couldn't possibly know what I'm doing just because I'm Native American. That's how people in a classroom setting treat me as a teacher, so I think I'll bow out of that and try to get into a lab assistant job. But those are increasingly requiring a Master's degree even though the job announcements SAY "Bachelor's degree required."

In my case it's a matter of needing a Master's degree or higher just to be seen as having an education AT ALL because I'm Native American. And I'd jolly well better get it at one of the Ivy league schools this time and not just San Francisco State. Anything less and people look at me and automatically assume I couldn't possibly know the difference between a petri dish and a microscope. With "only" a Bachelor's degree.

I've found that anything that doesn't have to be paid back, is competitive as hell. I just got rejected for a Bronx Science teaching fellowship program because, as they said, they had "so many applicants." And theirs said they took undergrad students or recent graduates. That's how bad things are these days. Everything that doesn't have to be paid back is going to be that damn competitive.