Now hear this! Michael Noble rocks

Now for an inspiring story. Michael Noble is a recent graduate of SMU. I know, you're saying 'so what, lots of kids are." True, but Michael was born deaf and at the tender age of two became the first child in north Texas to receive a cochlear implant. He was a medical trailblazer and his parents were brave because the FDA had only given the device approval to be used on children two weeks before.

The story just gets better. Last weekend he graduated from SMU with honors after just three years. This from a kid who couldn't hear and then had six years of intense therapy to retrain the brain to respond to sound.

He's thankful too, that techology had advanced at just the right time, that his parents made a bold decision and that therapists never stopped getting Michael up to speed.

Michael is living proof that technology is great, but the combination of technology and determination is even better.