First Time for Everything

Oh those joyous times when you decide to check your grades and something pops out at you, totally unexpected. There is a first time for everything and today I had my first experience of a big fat F staring right back at me.

So go ahead and call me a nerd. I have never failed a test in my life. I care about my grades, sometimes more than I probably should. I consistantly take challenging classes and spend hours doing homework, but I think its all worth it in the end. What I don't understand is how are people just ok with poor grades and failing tests? It makes me feel defeated inside. I believe in most cases students have to try to fail. Now we can be talking about two different instances here. My F was on a test, which was bound to happen sometime or another. But failing multiple classes? There is no excuse for that.

Now I am not terribly worried about this F. It was in spanish class, which I have been an A+ student the past two years. I'm still getting used to the teacher and how the tests are graded. This doesn't mean that it is ok though. I also have the opportunity to retake this poriton of the test, which will hopefully be to my advantage. I plan on studying the information again in preparation for the retake. The worst part about this whole situation is that I didn't expect this at all. I knew that I misunderstood an "essay" question that was worth a lot of points. But other than that, I thought I did pretty good! Now, I don't know for sure what I missed because I have only seen the test on Powerschool.

With all of this just adding another stress point in my life (yes, maybe you still want to call me a nerd) I still want to know why people are ok repeating this "behavior?" I am disappointed, and hoping my re-test goes better. It's also a little bit embarrassing, I have an A on everything else in this class but this one portion of the test. But people, come on, getting multiple F's seems like a problem to me.