1) This semester I am enrolled in Business Finance, and... it's definitely not what I would consider a personal "success." I went in knowing that the exam was extremely difficult, and worked very hard studying. However, I still did poorly on the first exam. I studied even harder for the second exam, and was rewarded with a better grade. However, the final exam did not go as well as I would have hoped. Although I do not yet know the grade, I know that it will not be up to my usual standard of excellence.
2) I have definitely learned a lot from this experience within Finance. From each exam, I learned better study skills that I have applied and will apply to future exams and work approaches in order to become more successful. I have also learned the value of practice. The more practice I did, the better my exams were, and the more confident I felt. My key takeaway was that if I put in enough effort and practice to my own maximum capacity, there is nothing more I could have done, and I will feel better and more confident throughout the experience.
3) Personally, I think failure is nothing the be afraid of, because it is inevitable. Maybe not in the situation of my finance course. But everybody will experience failure at some point and many times throughout their personal and professional lives. The way you respond to failure is what will determine your success in the future. If you take failure as a learning experience and don't make the same mistake twice, then you will be able to become more successful in the future as a result of your failure. I try to see failure as a learning experience, and I also try to prevent failure from happening in the first place. Through this course, my perspective on failure has definitely changed, and I have better learned to accept failure as a learning opportunity.
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