This semester, my biggest failure was failing to study enough for finance. This led me to have to drop the class due to my fear of actually failing it. After receiving a raw score of 45% which got converted to an adjusted score of 60% I gave up on myself and the class. The second exam had much easier material on it and I knew I could do better, at least B worthy. I told myself if I got an 80% I would not drop the class. However, my mind had already shut down and was close minded to the fact that I was dropping the class. So, I did not devote as much time I should have to studying and received a raw score of a 73%. Thus, I have dropped the class and am retaking it over summer.
From this I learned that I should not give up on myself so easily. It cost me $308 to pay back bright futures for being lazy and not studying hard. I definitely do not want to pay this price again.
Failure is embarrassing. However, this class has reinforced my belief that failure helps us grow as individuals and to learn from our mistakes. This class has definitely made me more likely to take a risk than before because I now know how common failure is and that I will get back up on my feet and improve from it.
Hi Lauren, I can relate to your story a little bit. I also feared that I would fail one of my classes last semester due to a bad grade on the first test. I was able to recover, by adapting my study habits for the next two exams, and ended up with a C+. However, finance is definitely a harder class than comparative politics, which was the class that I studied with. For weed-out classes like that we need to start out with the mentality of finding the best method to study for the exams, and I'm sure that we will both do better the next time we're faced with that challenge. I'm glad that you learned from your experience with failure, and check out my blog post to see what I learned from mine.
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Hey Lauren,
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate to this post because I am also taking finance and have had the same thought about maybe dropping the class. It is such a hard class so you are definitely not alone on this! I love that this class made you realize how failure helps us grow as individuals! Great post! Take a look at mine here: http://ffavorule.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html