Today I earned/won $1000. One of the teachers I have this semester has a deal with a business and they donate a certain amount of money each semester for my teacher to give out as a scholarship. It's our teacher's way of making the environment more like the business world where people get rewarded for doing good work. He mentioned all of this to us at the beginning of the semester but I never thought too much about it because I never figured I would be in the top three of my class. I still don't quite believe it.

We started the class filling out a survey for graduating seniors and then we did the teacher evaluations. After that he said he was going to call the names of the people that had won the money. My name was the first one called. I was kind of shocked and had trouble scooting my chair back in order to go up to the front of the room. Three of us in my class and four people in the other class each got $1000.

One of the other people in my class that got the money is also in my group. The teacher said that he took into account not only what assignments had already been graded, but also what he had seen of our group projects. So, considering two of us in the same group got the money, hopefully that is a good sign for our group as a whole. I've got my fingers crossed.

Speaking of my group, the other day I went to the library and finally got the label to look halfway decent on the 3D bottle that I had drawn in AutoCAD. Today one of the girls in my group showed me the new logo that one of her friends had come up with. We're going to have shirts made with the new logo on them and that'll be pretty cool. The only problem is that now I have to wait for her to send me the new logo and then try to get that onto the bottle. Hopefully I can figure it out in time. I'm also going to make some buttons with the logo on them.

Anyway, after class I went home and called my mom to tell her the good news. Then I called my dad and a couple other people. I'm not really good at showing emotion, especially excitement, but I was pretty excited. It's still unbelievable but I'm sure when I get a check in a couple of weeks I'll believe it.

The only remaining stipulation for the money is that we have to write a thank you letter to the company giving us the money. I'm still not quite sure what I need to write but I've got until next Thursday to figure it out. I also decided that I'm going to draw different panels of a cartoon showing what I could do with the money. I don't know how professional that is but I'm hoping they will find it amusing.