Final Thoughts
September 1, 2022
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
I want to end by sharing a story of a ‘C’ high school student. The son of a factory worker and his Welcome Wagon hostess mom. Their home was modest at best. From the time he could remember, his parents encouraged him and his brothers to be the first in their family to go to college so they would not have to work in a factory for a living.
This kid’s writing skills were so poor that he recruited a college friend to write his essay on why he wanted to go to college. It worked, and he managed to finish his freshman year at Hamline University with a whopping 2.0 GPA. He dropped out of college and hitchhiked across the country before returning to Hamline – first for the social life, and second for the education.
