Learn From Your MIstakes

6b) I hate to fail at something. I do learn from my mistakes, but I do tend to have a fixed mindset when I fist realize I failed at something. For me, it makes me feel less intelligent and I start to compare myself to other people. I don’t like to make mistakes, and I tend to be hard on myself when I do because I expect more from myself.

One thing I feel like I’ve been failing at in college is doing my homework when I know the teacher is not going to check it. I feel like there is no point to do it since it will go unnoticed but of course I was wrong. In my statistic class, we have multiple homework quizzes every week. Also, my professor is nice enough to let us even use our homework notebooks that have some of the answers in it. He takes three questions from our homework and then incorporates one we haven’t done yet. Since I never do my homework for that class, I have to see all those problems for the first time when I’m taking it. My professor is also nice enough to post the answers and the solutions to the homework problems online, but I still choose not too because I won’t get a grade for it. I personally believe if I’m not going to receive a letter grade for it, then it’s pointless. Since I don’t have the answers and unfamiliar with the problems, my grades for my quizzes have been on a decline.

This is something I’m currently working on. For the past week, I’ve completed all the homework assignments and checked to make sure I had all the right answers. For the ones I didn’t know, I wrote down the correct answer then later presented my professor with my question on it. I found that this really helped me and my quiz grades started to go back up. I learned from failing multiple quizzes that just because an assignment can go unnoticed, it doesn’t mean that isn’t beneficial to you in some shape or form.