Assignment 26A- Celebrating Failure

• A time that I failed this past semester:
• The time I failed this past semester was in my Biology class and Spanish class. Both of my first exams did not go to my liking. It came as a shock to me because of the fact that I had devoted a few days to study for both exams. I did not take these grades with grace either. I was incredibly angry with myself and said that I needed to do better. I am still using these past failures as motivation in those classes to try and insure that it does not happen again. Unfortunately my other exams did not fair much better. They were better than the first ones but still not what I was expecting.
• I learned a lot from these failures. One thing that I learned and took to heart was that grades aren't everything. My entire life I have had one goal in life and that is to do well in school and almost nothing else. This lead to some areas in life to be severely lacking. After a few times of not doing as well as I wanted I realized that I need to take time to smell the roses and enjoy being who I am and do things that I want to do. This is a difficult mindset to adopt from the one that I had before but I am confident that I can.
• Reflection on Failure:
• Failure is always difficult to deal with no matter who you are. In many ways I do not handle failure well at all. I very often just get upset with myself and try to use anger as motivation to try and not fail again. This was not a healthy way to handle failures, especially when you have a few failures in a row without any real success. This class has helped me to realize that failure is not always something to hate or despise. It can be a great opportunity to improve not only yourself but the situation you are in. It helped me to think more about why it is I am failing and not focus on the fact that I did fail. I would say because of this I am more likely to take a risk and not be afraid to fail.