{"id":26119,"date":"2015-10-30T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=26119"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:37:49","slug":"getting-over-a-bad-grade-a-personal-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/10\/30\/getting-over-a-bad-grade-a-personal-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting over a bad grade: A personal memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"Happy\u00a0end of October! Hopefully many of you have reached the closing round of midterms and are either eagerly or miserably anticipating your grade. While studying for U of T tests is stressful, getting your mark back afterwards can bring on its own type of stress.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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The end of October marks Halloween - a holiday made even more spooky because it coincides with the time when many students get their marks back from midterms and papers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

I still\u00a0shudder ominously when asked about my\u00a0first-year academic experience. It used to be so awful when I finished a test knowing I probably didn\u2019t do well, and even more awful when I actually tried to study effectively. I would spend the next few weeks either obsessively refreshing Portal to see if my mark\u2019s been posted or avoiding Portal completely. Over the years, I\u2019ve realized that many other students face their first-year exams in the same way and that this is a normal part of figuring out the academic landscape of a university. We shouldn't expect ourselves to just pick it up right away, and it\u2019s only through experience and mistakes and yes, sometimes failure, before we get the hang of things. (And if you're wondering, I'm doing pretty well now!!)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n