Thank God midterms are over!

So midterms, huh? Well in high school, they were nothing to worry about. I never even studied in high school! I always did great. But college is a whole other story. You have to actually open your book and read it. Overall, I'm not as satisfied with my grades as I had hoped to be. Of course I tried my best. I never once said "This isn't the best I could have done. I just gave up" I didn't give up, but obviously there were things I didnt understand as well as I thought. I did do my best, but I will do even better for the rest of the semester. So, I'm not completely satisfied, it sucks, but seeing grades that I never saw in high school has caused me to want to try harder. It lit a fire inside me to do my best and go above and beyond what I'm used to. Maybe there were times that I slacked a little bit but still felt my work and effort were sufficient when they really weren't. But I'm not going to beat myself up over a midterm grade. I'm going to let it inspire me to do better. You shouldn't let one grade define you as a student. You're smarter and stronger than you believe and you can always push yourself. And if you're failing a class, you should definitely push yourself so you won't have to take it over again. Just don't let it make you think stupid, you can overcome it. These grades don't show up on your transcript anyways. It would be in your best interest to learn from the mistakes you've made and your final grade will be so much better as a result. And if you have a professor anything like my wonderful music theory professor, then you're lucky. He told us that if we do considerably better on the final than the midterm, then he'll make the midterm weigh less than the final, and it'll help our grade. My professor lives for his students to improve, and that's all you can ask of yourself. So yeah it sucks you failed your midterm, but you can always do better.