Turkey’s college graduation was almost two weeks ago…today we decided to run it back!
When he graduated, we knew he had earned Latin Honors (summa cum laude, if you’re keeping track), but because he was a transfer student to UMSL his junior year, they had to wait for each of his classes to be finalized so he had the proper credit hours as a Triton to make the Latin Honors official. I won’t even start on how ridiculous it is that they don’t either require the professors to have those grades in prior to graduation, or simply delay graduation until they know which of their transfer students (a large percentage of the graduating class) have earned them, thereby depriving all of them the experience of having those honors read at graduation in front of everyone. OK, I started a little bit, and it is ridiculous…Bunny didn’t run into this problem when she received her honors as a transfer student to WKU at graduation last year. But he will have summa cum laude on his diploma, and today we drove out to UMSL to pick up his honors tassel in the school colors of red and gold (and took a few more pictures with it).
We did a replay of his graduation dinner of Ronto Wraps and the “High Republic Cordial,” from the new Star Wars: Galactic Drinks cookbook:
But I made a different dessert this time…since we’ve been in Chicago recently, I made a Portillo’s cake!
I’m still really frustrated for him (and the other graduating transfer students), that he wasn’t recognized the way he should have been at the ceremony, but as least he knows he earned the honors!
- Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
- Alumni Award for the Senior Math Student With Highest GPA
- Summa Cum Laude
- Dean’s List
- Pierre Laclede Honors College
- Accelerated Master’s Program
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Highest UMSL Score–MAA Putnam Exam
- Mathematical Association of American Missouri Section Meeting Attendee
- 2026 Graduate
