As someone who has big dreams and goals, I work hard for everything I do and everything I have accomplished. As I looked at my final grades, I realized I didn’t get the grades I was expecting. They weren’t terrible, but I felt they did not reflect all of the effort I had put into the past semester. I was disappointed for about a minute and I began to stress and worry about all the things I need to do and all the things I could’ve done. Then I realized I won nothing by stressing and worrying. I knew I did my best, and that was all that mattered. Yes, there’s always room for improvement, but I know I worked my hardest.

Maybe it was a bad semester, maybe you went through some things that could’ve effected how well you did on things, but just remember there’s always the next semester. The only thing someone can do is to keep moving forward and to not dwell on things of the past. What is done, is done. Things like grades are important, but really it’s about what you do with your education, if you have a good impact on the people around you, what you do for your community that matters. Being someone who takes challenging classes and tests their abilities is far more important than someone who takes all the easy classes just to get “easy A’s.”

It is important to remember that you cannot let your GPA define you. You are not your grades. There’s always time to improve. In the future, when you’re all settled in a good career, you’ll laugh at how much you let this matter.