Examples Of Overcoming Failure

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Overcoming Failure
Looking back to last year, when I looked at my final grades for the spring semester, It 's getting me nostalgic. I remember looking at my final grades staring right at webstar IVC page where it showed my final grades and feeling my heart sink because I knew this was my fault for not pushing myself to motivate myself to go to class. At the end of 2014 spring semester it was disaster for me. It was finals at IVC and had no motivation whatsoever to improve my falling GPA. I had no idea where my future was going or what I wanted to do. At the end of the day, I was 18 years old just out of high school that did not know what I wanted to do or what to major in. In my point of view most of us students feel really pressured to know what to do for our rest of our lives just right after high school when we don’t even know what we want to eat that after noon. It was no excuse that I was not doing any good in classes or even showing up but felt there was nothing, I could do. …show more content…

It was January 2014 the beginning of spring semester 2014. I was really excited to finally go back to school and start achieving my goals. I had gotten 5 classes because I wanted to overachieve and get over requirements. I got all my books and started to go into my classes I said to myself " I can do this It will not be hard I have always gotten good grades even if I dislike the class". I have to confess it was a little bit harder than I

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