One Smart Cookie!

Donald has been a full time student at Cal State LA for about 1 1/2 years. He has been very motivated to graduate to the point of taking 20 to 22 units each semester. The first semester he took on that load I said as long as you are getting good grades you can take as many classes as you want. I just didn't want him to waste his time & have to take a class over again. He's made such good grades that the heavy class load has been no problem at all!

So a couple of weeks ago we found out that Donald made the Dean's List. The school was having an Honors Convocation ceremony so we decided to go. I'm not sure what we were thinking because we didn't think it was that big of a deal. Maybe it was the way in which we were notified, by letter & the fact that when he RSVP'd that the person had no clue what was going on. Before arriving we thought it was going to be a little ceremony & that it wouldn't be a big deal. Well we were wrong!There were a ton of people there! The opening ceremony was long, just over an hour (with another one to follow) & the convocation speaker, who got right into speaking about how California is a state that doesn't care about education & it's time for CHANGE & be an agent of CHANGE, is this a political rally or an Honors Ceremony, wait I'm confused. Please enter & be seated, indoctrination will begin shortly! (And it didn't help that when he was being announced Barack's name was mentioned at least 2 times so maybe I was already a little annoyed & just waiting for the Vote Obama portion of his speech) I was glad to see that I wasn't the only one applauding after EVERY pause, com'mon people how long do you want to be sitting up in the bleachers without seat backs.... also I wasn't the only one not standing after each 'straight from Barack's campaign' statement. Sorry for the tangent! ReFocusing.... I have a smart hubby!
After the so-called Honor's ceremony they had another quick one where they received their certificates. There was a speaker there too & was nothing like the first. It was really good & I'm glad that the night was able to end on that note because I was just a little perturbed after the first speaker.

So the other thing that we didn't realize was what it meant to be on the Dean's List. 'Students named to the Dean's List are undergraduates who earn a grade point average of 3.4 or higher in 12 or more units of traditionally graded course work in one quarter & who rant in the upper 5 percent of students in academic achievement in their college' (College of Business & Economics). Wow upper 5%! I am so proud of him. He has been getting all A's & B's (mostly A's) since we've moved out to California. I didn't know I married such a smarty pants!

I love you Donald & thank you for being such a hard worker!