Personal Narrative: My Greatest Failures

Reflective Essay “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time” (Thomas A. Edison). Throughout my time in English came many moments where writing another essay, completing another tool, or simply attending the class became hard to do. This was my first class that I attended here, I had freshman written all over my forehead when it took me over 20 minutes to find where I was supposed to be. As a student, I set the bar for my performance in class very high. For this course, my expectations were to complete all the homework assignments, never miss nor skip a class, not procrastinate, and to make an overall grade of an A. Now being at the end of the course I can say that all of what I expected to happen partially came true. I succeeded in completing my assignments, I strayed away from procrastinating, and even made an overall A in the course. However, I failed to attend every class, sleep is a beautiful thing that I adore and need and in …show more content…
At first I believed that doing that assignment was pointless because I deemed it unnecessary to brainstorm how I may fail. After completing the assignment was I then able to see the necessity for it. Some of my failures were not completing the homework, missing class for extra sleep, procrastinating, missing more than 25% of the class, and not communicating with the teacher about assignments I did not understand. None of the above had a negative effect on my semester, however, my mentality for school did. I began the semester with a positive attitude but that drastically changed when track practices popped up, homework assignments started to pile, and restless night began to add up, all of which reflected in my work. There were some essays that I could have put forth more effort, some timed writings I could have came more prepared for, and some tools that I could have paid more attention