It’s getting to the end of the fall semester.
If you’re not already done with your classes, you may be thinking: Why didn’t I try enough? What will I tell my parents? What’s going to happen to me? All these thoughts run through your head and it seems like you really messed up this time. Well, here’s why it’s okay that you didn’t pass all of your classes.
Things happen in life and one of them happens to be the dreadful mistake of failing a class. It seems like the worst mistake in the world, and everyone around you may be making you feel like it really is. So, you beat yourself up about it and you wish you could take it all back. Thoughts about building some magical time machine to change your grade run through your head, knowing that if you had another chance, nothing would change. Everyone around you makes you feel like you are less of a person for it or that you didn’t try hard enough when we all know that it wasn’t about not trying hard enough.
We all wish that our parents, friends, and our own heads would take the time to think about when they messed up and had to learn from it because no one is perfect and things happen in life so you can’t make it to a class, you forget to do an assignment, or you couldn’t manage to get that A grade on your final.
So what happened to you this semester? Did you take one too many classes or couldn’t manage classes, work, and everything else in life? Welcome to the club. You might have started off the semester thinking, “This is going to be my year to shine.” Then the year started and you slowly fade off from sticking to studying all night to finally having a night to relax. You crack open a bottle of wine, turn on "Breaking Bad," and fall asleep. Eh, it happens.
Don’t beat yourself up for doing something that the university already has rules on. Now, I’m not saying go ahead and fail the class five more times, but hey, you learned from the last time. So pick up your pieces and try again. Let it go that you failed a class and pass it this semester.
We have a few weeks to click back into our senses for the winter semester. Don’t let anyone tell you that failing is the end of the world, because really, it's not. Let go of all of the distractions next semester, kick some major butt, and make everyone proud.
Always remember the past, but don’t ponder too hard on it because things will happen and you are no less of a person for not doing as well as you wanted.
So here are some things to think about the next time this crosses your mind. It’s not the end of the world that you didn’t pass. Next semester will always be there and life will go on.
So…you didn’t pass all your classes, so what?
