Ok, so I don't really brag much, but this is something that was super-exciting to us...which I guess shows that it doesn't happen very often, therefore I need to spread the news now that it has!
Mark's been working very hard through law school, and it's been very tough on him...as we expected it to be. However, after each semester he is constantly checking to see if his grades are up because he never really knows when they will be posted. On Friday, after one of his many trips to the school's website, he saw something that looked very unusual. One section said that his grades and GPA weren't available, but if he scrolled down there were grades posted. Looking at the grades, he thought that it was just some sort of computer glitch because he simply didn't believe it. He called me on my lunch break to tell me about it, but he was trying to not get excited in case that wasn't really what his grades were.
About 1 hour before I left work, he called me to tell me that it was time to go celebrate because he got an email from the school's registrar stating that his academic performance was exceptional for the past year and that his GPA qualified him for a Paul J. Liacos Scholar Award...meaning that he was in the top 10% of the second academic year. I'll bet you're wondering what his grades were by now, aren't you?
Mark had 4 classes last semester (plus 1 credit of the law journal which didn't give a grade) and he received 3 A's and 1 A+. That makes for a 4.06 GPA for the semester, which raised his cumulative GPA from a 3.43 to a 3.59. He was so ecstatic...as was I!! He's never had a 4.0 in all of his college career...technically he STILL never got a 4.0 because he got BETTER than a 4.0 this semester! Woo hoo!!! Go Mark!!
Ok, so we're excited that he did this well this past year, but we're still not sure if it will actually help him find a job in this year's law market...although we know it couldn't hurt! He is now a 3L, and in law-school terms, that's a really hard time to find a job if you didn't already find one. Knowing that the market out there is still very bad, we're just hoping that this will somehow show firms that he really is a good catch because he can show that his grades have been steadily improving throughout his time in law school. We have a little more confidence that he will be able to make something work out, but that doesn't really say much. We continue to pray for the Lord's help...and we're SO grateful for this blessing in our lives. We'll just have to wait and see where it takes us.
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