Back in April I wrote of my so called death week. I am about to prove the assumption that Death Week is the worst thing in your university life is utterly and totally untrue. There is one day, just one measly day that trumps them all and it can be considered as worse than death itself. This is partly due to the fact that you aren't alive after you die and therefore have no thoughts or feelings, or so they say. But I do suppose that I should clarify this for those of you who are scratching their heads thinking "what on earth is she going on about?"
The worst thing you will experience in your university life is not death week, but the result of a normal regular day, that starts out fine until the most dreaded thing happens. I'm not taking about turning up to the wrong lecture, or falling over and flashing your underwear at everyone. I'm talking about getting back an assignment to discover that you haven't passed. Not a "just about passed" fail, but a "there was no way of passing" fail. It is most often that you recieve these marks just before a test or first thing on a busy day. The two worst times in which to recieve them.
But fear not people, epic failures are not the end of the world, unless your epic failure ends in you recieving a Darwin award, but those are usually after your epic failure ends in death. Unless your in the afterlife watching the world from above, or below, you cannot know that that epic failure got you a Darwin award. I myself can say that I do so hope that I don't end up in that category when I die. But in today's world who knows how crazy I will be when I die or how I shall die.
Considering that the results set off one my anxiety attacks this morning, you can assume that they were awful. I shall not divulge in what they were, just that they fell into the "There is no way of passing" category of failure. But like everything in my life I have put it to the side and just got on with my day, bar a few emotional moments. My main view of life is that life is life and if it happens it happens, there is nothing one can do afterwards.
Seriously people, bad marks are not worth obsessing over, they just add to the already high anxiety. Take my word for it, all you need to do is suck it up and move on. Oh and throw the test paper/assignment out. You don't need the reminder of the worst day of your university career. Be happy, think positive, ok not all the time, but as often as you can. Life is worth living people...Don't give up over one measly bad mark.
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