eternal rise

Hard work pays off

April 15, 2007

Earlier this week I received a letter from a messenger while sitting in my computer science class. It was a notice that I had been invited to the Computer Science Spring Awards Ceremony held at Western Michigan University's Parkview Campus. My first thought was that it would just be some general lame award given out to students based upon their GPA. I decided that it would be in my best interest to go and check it out anyway.

I walked into one of the lecture halls where the ceremony was being held and picked up a program for the event. I found a seat and began flipping through the program trying to find my name. I was shocked. I was invited to be awarded the Col. Charles E. Bayliss Scholarship, awarded to promising new computer science students. I had applied for the scholarship back in January and the deadline for winners being announced had past, so I thought. I assumed that I hadn't been a recipient and forgot about it, but now I was there waiting to receive it. It was an awesome way to close out the school week.

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