Yesterday I got back the grade from my second freshman seminar test. I failed it.
Thats really only because she never told us this thing we had to do separately from the test was actually part of our exam grade, she made it sound optional. Then when she passed out the tests yesterday she had written on the board that it was 20 points of our test. I almost died. So in college, if a professor says, "For your test, you CAN complete this survery...blah blah blah...you could do this if you WANT..." what they really mean to say is "This is part of your test, so if you don't do it you're gonna fail!" So I advise that you complete any and every assignment given, optional or required.
I was thinking about this earlier today in oceanography. About how it made me so upset to fail a test in a class that should be a piece of baked apple pie when other people were doing just fine. About how I made a C on a test that two of my friends made B's on, and that I wished I could take tests as well as they could. About how I used to not take tests badly (I made a freaking 1950 on the SAT. I don't do bad on tests.) and that it just came naturally to me. About how it should still come naturally to me.
And then it hit me like a cold, packed snowball in my bare face. My problem in college is that I just EXPECT to do well on everything because that's how its always been. I keep telling people, oh yeah, I know I have to study in college, la la la, its not like high school, whatever. But I never actually believed it.
Don't come to college expecting ANYTHING to come easily. Even freshman seminar.
