Steve Schleuder and his friend, Renee

Steve Schleuder is the recipient of the 2007 CRN Scholarship for an individual with cystinosis who is pursuing a college education.

Dear CRN,
I received your message about the scholarship money. First of all I would like to say thank you very much for this scholarship, it will help quite a lot. I am currently attending Schoolcraft Community College and after two years, I plan to transfer to Central Michigan University. My goals currently are numerous. I plan within the next two years to take full responsibility of my adult life and all that it entails. This includes learning how to do the laundry (which I currently do very successfully) and cooking as well as ordering medicine, solo doctor visits, transferring from pediatric to adult doctors, and figuring out money issues for the future. This last goal may sound a little strange since I'm only 19 and just started college, but my circumstances, as you and many other people understand, are quite different than the average 19 year old. I am also making it a goal to job shadow numerous occupations in order to find my right path in life as well as find myself a temporary job to build up money and save this money for various needs in my life at present and for the future. My brother, Eric, is a financial planner and talked all the economics of my life over with me. This helped me quite a lot, and he promised that as long as either one of us was alive, he would help me. I thank the CRN again for selecting me for this honor.

Sincerely,
Steve Schleuder

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