Success and Failure for ths School Year

Throughout the year, there are multiple challenges a student has to face at school. Homework, good grades, and other stuff are all examples. One can either succeed or not so succeed in these areas. For me, I can say that I went through many successes and failures during the school year.

Homework doesn't really count as a success but when you have to pull off something big, it feels like a huge success. For example, the group project that's worth 10% of your term mark. There always seems to be a person slacking off and does not want to do anything no matter how hard you convince them. Sometimes, they listen but they do a really bad job in the process. So now, I have to stay up until 12:00 AM making changes so massive to someone else's work that I might as well re-write the whole thing. However, it felt great when I finally finished his part because it means that the rest of my group and I can mess around with the slacker the day the project is due and tell them that no one did his part and watch him freak out. I recommend doing this to anyone that is in or has been in a similar situation because it will be totally worth it.

For the topic on grades, the closest metaphor I can relate them to is a double edged sword since I have both succeeded and failed at them. For example. I have done extremely well on numerous subjects, getting above 90 for most of them. But the thing that is killing them right now is math. I never really invested a lot of time on the subject and that has lowered my grades as a result. Sometimes, I can make really stupid mistakes that can drop me as much as 5%. But there was I thing I really messed up on and that was the trig section on the midterm. I thought to myself, Trig, this is easy; let's just say I was unaware that my calculator was in Radians instead of Degrees. Plummeted straight down from a 92 to a 75. To this day, I always double check my work. I also check that my calculator is right mode.