27 Feb

I Could’ve Done Better… My Failure 2/22

Yeah… Although I don’t like to do it often… I had another “learning experience” in my life. To maintain the type of mentally demanding lifestyle that I have, I must manage my time exceptionally well. I’ve been doing a pretty good job up until this point, but having too much going on and not enough time to complete my tasks led to my most recent failure.

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Okay, now back to my most recent failure. Last week I had two midterms to study for, one on Tuesday (in Operations) and one on Wednesday (in Finance), along with an assignment due on Wednesday. I took the day off on the Friday beforehand for an extra day to study, but errands that I had to put off until then ate up most of my study time. I was fortunately able to finish up all but one section of the homework, and I was starting to feel pretty confident I was going to be prepared for my tests.

Unfortunately, Saturday and Sunday was spent studying for my Operations midterm (and I still hadn’t covered all of the material), and I had done a minimal amount of studying for the Finance midterm. Monday wasn’t much better either. Work took up about 11 hours of my day, but at least I was able to finally wrap up my Tuesday midterm, leaving my Wednesday midterm review and homework. I was becoming more and more nervous about being ready for these midterms at this point.

So now we’re at Tuesday. I took the Operations midterm, but I did not feel as good as I would have liked. There was stuff on there that if I took another hour or two to review, I would have done better on, which always frustrates me. Fortunately, at this point I was thinking all I have to do is cram for the Finance midterm and finish up the final part of the homework and I will be fine.

If only it happened that way…

That last question on my homework took up about 5 hours of my time Tuesday night. And I’m still not convinced my answer was correct. What’s worse, that left virtually no time to cram, so on Wednesday I pretty much went into the Finance test cold. The experience was similar to the Operations midterm, but worse. There were questions I knew how to do, but just forgot since I failed to review them and thus had to guess on. There were also questions that I knew how to do but took me longer to complete due to my lack of preparation. All in all, my testing experience was awful, and I know I could have done a lot better.

But what exactly could I have done better? Well first off, I should have tried knocking out that homework early on so that if I had any major issues, I could plan around that. Second, I should have started studying earlier. Even though I put a solid amount of time in for studying, it obviously wasn’t enough and studying a week before vs. the weekend before would have made a huge difference. Third, I should have leveled out my time between the two exams. I gave too much attention to Operations and not enough to Finance, and paid the price for my mistake.

As the saying goes, “You live and you learn.” I worked too hard and didn’t work smart enough. I can’t take back how I did on these midterms but I can use the mistakes I made to do way better on the finals. And if I want to pass these classes with a B and still be eligible for tuition reimbursement at my job, I will do just that.

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