Month: November 2014

Alex scored a 32 on the ACT twice but I encouraged him to take it again to see if he could improve on his score. Since he’s been working on college applications and scholarships, I think he saw the benefit an impressive ACT score could give him. So last month he went in for a third time.

Today he checked his score.

34!

Nice. He scored a perfect 36 in science (interestingly, the only section on which I did not score a 36 back in 1989). He’s pretty stoked about it, and hopefully it’ll translate into easier admissions to colleges and some more scholarship money.

We just came home from Alex’s black belt graduation ceremony. After about five years of hard work at Origin Martial Arts, he received his first-degree black belt and a pretty spiffy black gi.

He’s been attending two or three nights a week for all these years– quite a commitment, especially for someone as busy as he is lately. It’s been a lot of fun for him, and also very rewarding to finally achieve this. Nice job, Alex.