…and the news is good. I got 3 A’s and 2 A-’s, for my second consecutive 3.86 semester. (Actually, it’s 3.86666666667, which distinctly rounds up to 3.87. Yet USC says it’s 3.86. Why the heck do they always round down? Bastards, I tell you…) That puts me easily on the Dean’s List (which has a 3.5 minimum), and makes me generally quite happy.

It’s a HUGE improvement over the beginning of my college career, when I slacked off in quite a few classes, turned in several key papers late, and emerged from my first two years at USC with an overall GPA of 3.281 and a journalism GPA of 3.14… way too low. Now, those numbers have improved to 3.496 overall (which I will take the luxury of rounding up to 3.5, thus allowing me to assert that my college career as a whole thus far qualifies for the Dean’s List) and 3.609 in journalism.

The huge improvements — 0.215 better overall, and a whopping 0.469 better in journalism — are due more to my pathetic performance in a few classes freshman and sophomore years than to any great leap of wisdom this year. But still, I’m obviously very happy and proud that I’ve been able to pull those numbers up. And it further suggests to me that maybe I am graduate/law school material, after all. When are those LSAT dates again?

Sorry, I don’t mean to brag. I was just… well… okay, I guess I did mean to brag. But why the hell not? This is my website! :)

In other news, my parents’ 25th anniversary is May 28, and they’re having a big party to celebrate it on May 31. Should be fun. More details on that as it approaches.