So I literally just SCREECHED (freaking out my dad) but it was a happy screech. I didn't know how else to react... I looked at my grades, double checked that I wasn't seeing things wrong... then SCREECHED.... high pitch screech!!! Why?? BECAUSE I GOT ONE B AND 4 A'S FOR THIS PAST SEMESTER!!!! (for those of you not familiar with the american grading system A's are highest, then B, then C, then D, then F [there is no E grade...] F is failing.) In university, most classes require you to get at least a C to pass the class otherwise you have to retake it. Last semester, I got 4 C's and one A... see a major difference? lol!!! That means i got a 3.75 GPA this semester (on a 4.0 scale... if you take honors classes you can get higher than a 4.0 but I dont take honors classes)!!!! That's like my BEST GPA EVER!!!!! I had a 2.38 GPA last semester!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even with the drama with my ex and his stupid friend, even with my rocky start (I had some panic attacks in the first month of the semester) and almost getting kicked out of university (they thought I wasn't stable enough to stay), even with my friend attempting suicide only a half hour after my ex broke up with me... even with EVERYTHING that happened I rose above it!!!!!! I showed EVERYONE WHO DOUBTED ME THAT I CAN SUCCEED!!!! EVERYONE THAT DOESN'T BELIEVE IN ME CAN JUST GO AWAY BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN ME AND THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS!!! I'm almost crying right now cuz I'm like SO HAPPY!!! I was expecting at least 2 B's and at least one C!!! DREAMS CAN BECOME REALITY, WHEN IN REALITY, YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAMS!!! As Walt Disney once said, "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." (thanks to http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walt_disney.html for providing quote)
If you want something, work for it. You may fail once, twice, or more, but through failure comes success. As Ralph Waldo Emerson (American poet) said, "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”* "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.” -- Woody Allen (American Actor).* By Anonymous, "Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.”* It isn't our failures that define us, but what we do after we fail that matters. If Thmas Edison had given up after his first, second, third, fourth... failure we may not have the lightbulb! Edison is rumored to have failed about 10,000 times before achieving the efficient and successful lightbulb!!
* quotes from http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/failing/
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