Oh No! Don't Rain on Lia's Parade

I had another exam already yesterday and the results just came out! I have a bad habit about study last minute, but this time, even though it was last minute, I studied a lot harder. For the first exam, I started studying at 8pm the night before. That didn’t wield such great results (with my 43%), so this time, I started studying the moment I woke up. It was still the day before, but I was able to crunch in an extra 7 hours.

(As I am writing this in the beginning of class, the professor just announced that he curved the score. He said in his 10 years of teaching, this exam had the lowest class average he’s ever seen.)

Suddenly my score no longer feels so impressive. I was going to be happy to say I passed the exam with 71%, but I was just made aware that my raw score before the curve was a 51%. Those extra 7 hours studying really didn’t change much. Interesting because I felt more confident in this test, but the results say otherwise.

Whatever, a win is a win.

I was just about to break into a speech about, “I’m more capable than I thought”, or “If you put your mind to it, then you can achieve whatever you want”, or “I should believe in myself and my abilities”, but no. This is an extremely humbling experience for me.

On the bright side, I’ll pass this class. When summer school just started, I was so scared about failing this class and having to stay an extra semester, but this boost will help me in more ways than one.

TLDR: no TLDR because I suddenly feel very unworthy.