"Out of a seven days a week, I'm gone doing appearances four days," she said. "I really wanted to have the time to do everything, but I have so many responsibilities with the pageant title I had to choose not to write a thesis--which I'm still not exactly okay with."
But the scholarship money she earns helps make up for some of the disappointment.
In total, she has won over $1,000, all of which has gone to Harvard.
"I will never see a check passed into my hand [from the pageants]," she said "It goes directly to tuition."
Lawless isn't the first contestant to have her pageant winnings go to Harvard. In fact, she said, Crimson women--including the outgoing Miss Massachusetts, Elizabeth E. Hancock '00--have dominated the competition throughout the past decade.
And it was Hancock who first suggested that Lawless try out for a local contest in the Miss America system.
But the Freetown contest wasn't Lawless' first experience with competitive pageantry.
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