{"id":311,"date":"2006-09-13T05:38:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=311"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:27","slug":"smart-is-as-smart-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Smart Is As Smart Does"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning, the National Merit Scholarship<\/a> Corporation<\/a> is releasing the names of the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. If you were to dig deeply enough into the Alabama list<\/a>, you would find the name of Number Three<\/strike> One Son, one of 28 National Merit Semifinalists from Virgil I. Grissom High School<\/a> in Huntsville. He’s the one smack dab in the middle, with the large, no-orthodontia-thank-you-very-much grin.<\/p>\n

Sixteen thousand out of the more than 1.4 million students who took the PSAT<\/a> last year were named Semifinalists. Grissom usually produces more National Merit Scholars than any other high school in Alabama, and that’s the case again this year. For Number Three<\/strike> One, it’s the proud payoff for the prep he put in last summer before the 2005 Fall PSAT. I made sure he was aware of the fact that doing well on the PSAT was the key to some possible scholarship money, and he put in the work and took it the rest of the way. Should he progress on to Finalist (about 90% of Semifinalists do), then he will likely be offered some nice scholarships by the three colleges on his short list.<\/p>\n

Well done Number One! Your Mom and I are beaming with pride and breathing a little sigh of forthcoming financial relief.<\/p>\n

Now, having said all that, please be sure to do the following: take out the trash, straighten up your room, remember your Creator and, as always, go easy on the gas pedal.<\/p>\n

After all, smart is as smart does.\n<\/p>\n

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