[DawnS]

I am working on my second week of school and I am already going to have to drop a class and add on another. What I didnt realize is that I took a class that was too advanced for me and when I took the test this weekend online I bombed it. Well, it didnt help that in the middle of the test my son accidentally broke a car window while mowing the lawn. I cried for hours that night. I felt stupid and worthless. I tried really hard on this test yet did so poorly. Even though my husband tried to make me feel better, it didnt. I wondered why he would want such a stupid person as his wife. My mind kept telling me my perfect grade had gone down the drain in one test even though this class had extra credit so I could have made some of this up, but no...I couldnt be reasoned with. Perfect, perfect, perfect.... everything always has to be perfect. Which you and I know hardly anything ever is but I try with all that is in me to make it be. Today I went into the success center at the college which was where I found out that the class I signed up for was all wrong for me. I was told to drop the class and pick up another - a computer class that is to start in July. Granted it is more money out of my pocket, but I can get rid of the bad test grade and start over in a new class. "Start over" is like "Perfect". I always want to start over so it can be done right - done perfect. It is so stressful. I know I do this to myself, but I cant seem to stop myself. Am I the only one that does this?

~Dawn

[CedarS]

You are not the only one who goes through this at all. (((((((Dawn)))))))

I so remember my time in college, sometimes there would be one foul up after another, also my first few weeks would be hard each quarter as I discovered how tough things were. Tough as in the paperwork, the keeping track, and the sheer exhaustion of navigating round a huge campus.

The disability coordinator told me that folks often have carved out a semi comfortable life, maybe without really knowing it, without knowing how they have come up with good accommodations, only to find when they are in school, that they are exhausted by the environment and structure. It is all new somehow, it is always changing, and just when we think we have it together, we are told that something is incorrect.

things happen!! we all make mistakes and luckily, most can be corrected. as you did.......xoxo pat

[earthstar]

I remember signing up for a class and taking a wrong one. Advisors are suppose to keep us from making these mistakes. Double check and double check, I remember all of that stuff and still I' d screw-up. That's why they have easers on pencils. The first thing I would tell me kids in school was, 'you are not going to learn unless you make mistakes.' So---- make lots of them your learn that's what school is about. Good luck.

[DawnS]

Today I stopped into the school fill out the "drop/add class" paper so now I have that all done. Tonight I have been working away on one of my other class which I have a test due tomorrow. (I pray I do better on this test!) I seen I missed out on some extra credit, because I didnt explore the site like I should have. Oh well.

Thank you very much for your replies. Means much to me.

~Dawn

[jmo531]

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