This story from my hometown newspaper, The Journal Review from Crawfordsville, caught my interest today.
Josh Weir, a graduate of Southmont High School, went to Ivy Tech right after high school. He graduated with an associate's degree. From there, he had planned to move on to IU's business school.
But at the request of his academic advisor, he needed to apply to a few schools other than IU.
Long story short, he's going to Harvard.
This is such a cool thing, because Crawfordsville is a mostly rural town. Among the three high schools of Montgomery County, Southmont is considered to be the rural-est of the rural. By the way, just to put things into perspective, the population of all three schools (Crawfordsville, North Montgomery, and Southmont) combined is still much less than half of that of Carmel High School alone.
Josh, I know there is no way you're going to see this, but I hope you have a great experience out in Cambridge MA. I hope you bring some good ol' country common sense to Boston, and that you will also bring a little culture back to the Hoosier State when you're back home. There is nothing like an awesome education.
Josh Weir, a graduate of Southmont High School, went to Ivy Tech right after high school. He graduated with an associate's degree. From there, he had planned to move on to IU's business school.
But at the request of his academic advisor, he needed to apply to a few schools other than IU.
Long story short, he's going to Harvard.
This is such a cool thing, because Crawfordsville is a mostly rural town. Among the three high schools of Montgomery County, Southmont is considered to be the rural-est of the rural. By the way, just to put things into perspective, the population of all three schools (Crawfordsville, North Montgomery, and Southmont) combined is still much less than half of that of Carmel High School alone.
Josh, I know there is no way you're going to see this, but I hope you have a great experience out in Cambridge MA. I hope you bring some good ol' country common sense to Boston, and that you will also bring a little culture back to the Hoosier State when you're back home. There is nothing like an awesome education.
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