1) This is was my first semester at UF and since I transferred with a GPA of 3.9/4, I did not even worried for one minute that I would have a hard time studying or that I would struggle in anyways with my classes. But sadly when I first started studying for Business Finance after going to every single lecture, I could not understand how he came up with the solutions for his problems and I started to feel a little bit worried. After realizing that any question asked could be solved in a different way I started panicking and tried to get some help from study edge but it was too late. There were too many problems to solve to acquire more speed and practice and I ended up failing my first exam badly. I spend most of my time studying for this exam and unfortunately neglected my other classes. I had to came up with a game changer and I started every single day for hours for all my classes but Business Finance was too overwhelming. I started freaking out since I needed a B or higher in this class so I completely shut off any extracurricular activity which was not study related. For my second exam I was confident and knew that with hard work, I could pass the class but I failed again. Not as bad but I failed. I finally decided that it was better for me on my other classes and drop Business Finance in order to not mess up my GPA that much. This did not help again. I also failed my second management exam even though I had studied for it weeks before and I was positive that I knew the materials and well know I have one exam left and I need a 75% to pass the class.
2) I learned from it to never underestimate anything. I should always study as much as I can for every exam and never underestimate any class because I think I could take the whole world. Business Finance showed me that no matter how smart you are if you do not dedicate yourself completely to Business Finance and study for it, you will ner make it pass the class.
3) Before I went to UF, I never thought about failure since failing at something was never an option to me. I was most of the time angry and disappointed with myself when I could not figure out how to pass Businesses Finance, to be honest. As far as I am concerned I would say that I handle failure in a very quiet way. I do not like to talk about it and I try to recreate the scene of why it went wrong and why I did not prevent it.
After realizing through this class that failure is just a part of the process in the entrepreneurial lifestyle, I realized to embrace failure and to learn as much and as many mistakes, I have committed in my life.
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ReplyDeleteI also transferred with the same GPA as you but I never underestimated UF. UF is a school that people in high school are devastated when they don't get into. A University school has a much higher standard to hold especially when you come from a school where people can just get an AA degree. I am glad this semester taught you that. Good luck and continue working hard!
I can relate to being overconfident and then struggling, and dealing with the consequences. It is definitely something I have faced in my college career, specifically in some of the harder classes. I think that this is something most people learn when coming to university, that college is harder than most if not all of the classes they have taken previously.
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ReplyDeleteIt definitely is hard to balance a schedule when one class is too overwhelming. I feel that it is awesome that you can put your failure out here this publicly and knowingly accept that you could've done better. It is a very hard thing to do. It is very humbling that you weren't too confident to drop the class, but that you didn't rush to do it either and genuinely tried sticking it out.