1) This past semester was probably very weird for everyone and I had a hard time adjusting to doing classes at home in my family's house. I was taking many business classes including Business Law. I have always been bad at memorizing facts and law has never come easy to me. I studied very hard at the beginning of the semester and did pretty well on the first two exams. The whole class is divided up by just three exams so that those were the only thing determining our grades. I decided to opt in to pass or fail for this class because at the time I thought I would be able to pass and not have that class affect my GPA. I ended up getting one percent below the passing guidelines so I ended up failing the class.
2) I have never failed a class before so this was a brand new experience for me. I was very disappointed and took it to heart that I was a failure when I saw that I didn't pass the very first time. After talking with my mom I learned that everyone has failures and that it is okay to fail if you tried your best at it. I took this as a learning opportunity to not beat myself up as much and that a lot of people have to retake classes. I have the knowledge of taking the class last semester to help aid me in passing it this Fall.
3) I think failure should be seen as a learning opportunity. People don't purposely try to fail but failure allows us to learn from our mistakes and allows us to try again differently until we succeed. I need to learn to handle failure better because I take it way too personally. I think if you have a positive outlook on failure you will enjoy your life a whole lot more. This class has changed my perspective on behavior especially after I read the book "How to fail at almost everything and still win big" by Scott Adams. He emphasized how failure is part of the journey of life and that you should embrace it. I enjoyed reading that book a lot and these assignments have made me realize to be more open with changing my ideas and taking feedback from other people's perspectives. I am definitely more willing to take a risk now because I have a better attitude about failure.
Kendall, I am sorry you had such a difficult experience, however, I can see that you're taking it as a moment to step back and find out what went wrong so you can improve. Next semester, you'll be more prepared and hopefully things will have gone back to normal a bit and you will excel! Now that you've had this experience, you are smarter and stronger because of it.
ReplyDeleteHi Kendall,
ReplyDeleteFailing a course can be very difficult to handle. I have been through a similar experience where I fell just short of a passing grade. It is completely normal to feel disappointed or even a little guilty when this happens. Some people have a tough time learning from their mistakes, so you are already on the right path!