Your grades do not define you. It does not matter how long it takes you to complete your degree or if your grades aren’t the best. It does not matter. You are more than your grades.
Tests and essays are meant to see how much information you can take in and apply. It is not the top of what you can learn, it is in this moment in time how much you can remember. Your grades are based on whether you’ve had a bad day, a good rest, not enough food, or even your overall mood. One test or one class doesn’t say how you are as a student or a person.
If you fail a class, that doesn’t mean that you’re a failure or that you could do better. It’s simply the fact that something didn’t click with the material and you weren’t able to take it in. Or you had trouble in some other area of your life that made it hard to focus on the class. If you got overwhelmed and failed because of it, that doesn’t make you worse than everyone else, that just means that you weren’t ready at that point in time to do what was needed for that class.
When you’re out in the real world, there are no standardized tests or essays to write. You are allowed Google in real life. You can ask for help in difficult situations. The structure of the college is not the same as the structure of the real world. No one cares in the real world what your grades were or how long it took you to get your degree. They care about who you are now and what you can do at that moment.
You are constantly growing. What you know now and what you’ll know in a few weeks or a year will be drastically different. College isn’t about tests and essays, it's about taking in information that will help you once you hit your industry. No one cares how long it took you to learn a certain idea or methodology, they care about if you’re able to get the work done.
If you only take one thing from this article, please take the fact that you are worth more than a grade. You are more than test answers and essays. If you don’t get a perfect score or if you fail, it does not matter because they aren’t part of you. They are an experience you’ve had and not an expression of your self-worth.
You are a human first and a test-taker second. You are more than a grade on a paper. You are a person who is good at many different things.
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