Well good news has come today. I got an email from my prof contact at UCONN. I call him up and he tels me I'm going to be offered one of the Departmental Scholarships. Its all still unofficial, but I got in!!!!!
WooHOOOOO!!!!!

Unfortunatly it means I'm going to have to stop buying stuff for quite some time and try to pay off every bill I have before that, but its very exciting. This weekend I was starting to think my life path was supposed to be heading in a different direction, but now he way has been made clear.
Thats about all for today, off to have a shot to celebrate.