Sunday, April 10, 2016

Celebrating Failure

1. To start off, I am not good at math. In fact I'm pretty much awful. For reference, when I took the ACT back in high school, I scored so low on the math section I was deemed "not college ready." For my business degree, I have to take survey of calculus before my junior year. So this semester I signed up for MAC2233. Within one week, I realized I was going to fail. So I dropped  the class and picked up the pre-calculus course, MAC1140. I failed the first two exams. I wouldn't say I tried really hard ... because I find it extremely difficult to motivate myself to study for math, but I failed the first two exams. After the first exam (the grade I got was class average) I thought I could pull it together for exam two. Instead I did even worse on that exam and literally cried the entire way home from the exam. Realizing this was going to destroy my GPA, I dropped the class and I'm now enrolled in MAC2233 at Santa Fe (hoping it's a little bit easier there!)

2. I learned a few things from this class (not much of which was math related). First, I learned that while school is important, I shouldn't be stressing myself out so much to the point where I cried for over an hour about a class. I also did learn a few math concepts which I hope will help me in MAC2233 this summer.

3. I'm not a person that handles failure well. Emotionally, I cry when I get frustrated, which means I cry... a lot. And I place a lot of expectation on myself to get good grades since I feel like that is why I'm here at school, and when things don't go according to plan I get really upset. I was really stressed and upset for the first half of the semester. It wasn't until I dropped math that I was even able to enjoy myself again. And it's also embarrassing to be so bad at something even when you're trying. I don't know how much  this class has changed my perspective on failure or taking risks. I'm not adverse to risk, I just want to succeed in any risks I do take, that hasn't really changed. If anything I'm just trying to recognize that everyone fails and it's okay to straight up fail sometimes.

Also I wasn't sure what picture to include so here's something I just thought was funny. No matter what you fail in, at least it wasn't this:


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  1. UnknownApril 10, 2016 at 11:34 PM

    Hey, I think it is pretty cool that you were able to look back at one of your failures and tell us about it from an entrepreneurial perspective. Sometimes, doing everything you are capable of is still not enough, and you are likely to experience failure on the road to success. However, your ability to come back from it, learn from it, adapt, and continue pushing forward is a very useful skill to have when taking on more risk as an entrepreneur. I also wrote about a similar experience in this class, due to poor time-management skills.

    Also, check out my blog post:
    http://sebastianent3003.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html

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  2. UnknownApril 12, 2016 at 9:19 PM

    Hey there,
    It's funny that I have an extremely similar story as you do! I also dropped MAC1104 my first semester at UF, as a Junior. I tried to take it at Broward College and I am an online student and live in Fr. Lauderdale. I wasn't able to do this without taking PREALGEBRA since my ACT scores are so old... I then decided I had to retake it online at UF and I'm happy to say I passed with a C-! Good luck in your class. I think sometimes it's good to fail, it helps us really seek ourselves and allows us to be a better person and celebrate any mini achievement we are able to accomplish! Great post! :)

    Check out mine below:
    http://laurnetz027.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html

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