Okay before I begin this story, let me preface it by saying my professor wasn't terrible. I took Physics in high school so I wasn't too worried about taking it in my first semester in college. Well it was a whole new ball game at college level and some courses are to weed out the weak. Well my first physics test was humbling to say the least. My test score was 20, yes out of 100. ACK! How could one recover with a start like this? Well it was comforting to know that my score was the average for the whole class. The professor put his ego in his pocket and took part of the blame for the low scores. He retaught the material, retested us and we all got dramatically improved scores. I respected the teacher for doing this and took his class for physics 2 also.
Failure is a given in this life at times, even when we try. Should we give up at the first opportunity? No. It is our chance to learn and improve from our mistakes. I certainly had some classes that it would have been easier to drop and try something else but I never did. I'd rather have a hard earned C than an easy A, if it involved not quitting.
Don't give up when the waters get rough, just keep paddling thru it. ''Some thru the water, some thru the flood, some thru the fire but all thru the Blood. Some thru great sorrow but God gives a song, in the night season and all the day long.''
