About A Time I failed this past semester
This semester I am taking quantitative methods. This class has lots of work and can be easy to get behind. There are 4 exams for the class and the first one was meant to be the easiest. However I received an 88. This worried me because I knew that future exams were going to be a lot more difficult.
What I learned
I learned I should not assume things are easy and see everything I do as important. Part of taking exams is mental. There is a difference of being confidence and having ignorance. I also realized that I need to take more advantage of professor office hours and TA office hours. I found time in my schedule to meet up with my TA weekly and go over problems. Going to the TA helped me a lot and I was retaining information much better. I was a lot more prepared for the second exam and surprised myself with a 100.
What I think about Failure
Failing can be embarrassing and sometimes hard to overcome. In school and by peers it is common to hear "you learn from failing". While, I agree you can learn from failing I would much rather to get it right first. Through my experience of failing I have learned many things and have grown a lot. Realizing successful people have failed many times gives me more hope. The caveat to failing is that their has to be effort and hard work in failure. If I failed because of laziness then I am probably not learning anything. But as long as I have a goal and living a driven life, failing is okay! The most important thing I have gotten out of this class is to take risks. I will never know if something works, such as a business, unless I take a risk. I understand failure comes along with risk but have learned it is nothing I can not overcome.
Hey Tyler,
ReplyDeleteI understand worrying about exams, that's been my whole semester. And with classes that are only based on exams, it is worrisome a lot of the time. You can definitely learn through failing and without it, we wouldn't have that experience.
Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeletefirst of all, it is super awesome that you were able to get a 100 on the second exam! That is really hard to do and I respect you a lot for that. I also really like what you said about the difference of being confident and having ignorance. There were a lot of inspirational and wise things said in your post. Great post!