Student Shows up a Professor

One of my star students, Miss Smith, is graduating in a couple of weeks. In addition to completing a complicated double major double minor program and doing a host of other activities, she has represented our school in Track and Field the past four years. She is a very good runner and also does cross country and steeplechase. I usually kid her about the marathon. Today she told me that she is running a marathon in fall and hopes to qualify for the Boston Marathon. She is good enough to easily qualify, something I could probably do but with difficulty. It is great to see a student out-distance me not just in academics but also in other areas.