Hello peers, pears, pals, and pioneers of learning!
Have any of you taken [REDACTED] class taught by [REDACTED]? Promise me you won’t share this with him, ok? Let me tell you about him. He is the chair of the department and his favorite course to teach is, of course, [REDACTED]. For his lectures he mounts the lectern and marches facts single file through the students’ brains like he’s invading a country. It’s amazing.
I assumed that since I had listened to all of the lectures and even studied for the second midterm I would get a passing grade. NOT.
I scored a measly, measly, never-have-I-gotten-a-lower-grade-on-a-midterm 67%. Thank God he curved up and I ended up with a 73% due to some feedback from students in the course. I wanted to blame him but I couldn’t. Think about Pryor and his weekly quizzes. Those are based on stories and lesson from his class, right? Well [REDACTED]’s exams are all based on definitions within the textbook. Should be easy!
But alackaday, I fell on my face. I did not prepare myself. I did not inhale the material, the definitions in the textbook. I thought I was ready when I truly was not. I now know next time to spend more time face to face with the textbook and with the course content so that I don’t embarrass myself again.
I deal with it by suppressing it in my mind. I avoid dwelling on failure lest I go insane! Reflect, don’t regret.
Hi Anthony,
ReplyDeleteI agree that you can not dwell on failure and keep thinking about it, you have to just learn from it and move on to trying to succeed in doing something else. We all fail a lot in our lives, but that helps us grow and change as people and become all the wiser for the experience gained along the way.