I’m proud of my alma mater today.
The Borah High School Track team was as supportive a group as I’ve ever had. They cheered me on, they ran with me, they cover the whole track with encouraging words.
But I’m most excited because they listened. They heard that if they believe they can get better at something, they can. They heard that I “wasn’t smart enough” for the gifted program. They also heard what I did at Borah and that I went to MIT. They heard that STEM jobs are some of the best paying and that they should consider STEM as a career or at least understand coding. And they heard that even if they don’t think they can do something now, if they believe and work hard, they can in the future.
The record for “fastest mile with an egg on a spoon in the mouth” fell today. The previous record of 9 minutes 29 seconds was passed by an 8-minute 2-second mile run. I might have broken 8 minutes but I chose an ill-advised 400-meter “race” with some students while I juggled and they did 400-meter repeats. I had only jogged for 200 meters warming up when I ran a 67 second 400 meter while juggling with a group of students. Unfortuanlty that triggered my asthma which probably cost me at least 3 seconds.
Thanks for the support!
(FYI – the title came from my yearbook title award-winning wife, so it must be good, right?)
