- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Focus of the story: Brief synopsis of your struggle
I learned how to deal with failure.
Describe your learning story and how you developed, grew and/or overcame the problem.
I would say the first time that I failed, I definitely felt inadequate. Once I looked around and saw that other people were struggling just like I was, I realized that it's just a difficult environment and I was going to have to learn to adjust. I reached out to professors, and I reached out to peers to see what they were doing that was making them successful and I started following those steps that they had laid out – things like going to office hours and getting peer tutors and doing study groups with your friends.
It's better to reach out before you have a problem rather than after the problem occurs so building relationships earlier on can really help you out in the long run. This way, if a problem comes up or there is a concept you don't understand, you already have the relationships to reach out before it escalates, and you don't do well on a test or you feel like you are beginning to struggle in the class and aren't understanding concepts building off each other.
Describe the impact that this experience had on you.
Reaching out for help was definitely one of the biggest things that helped me overcome failure. If I had delt with any sort of failure on my own I wouldn't have had the tools that I needed to ultimately succeed. Its more rewarding having failed a lot than having never failed at all because overcoming difficult circumstances and failures makes it that much sweeter when you do succeed because you know you've overcome a lot to get there. Pressure to succeed can be great but I have strengths and weaknesses just like everybody else and my weaknesses don't define me.
Description of the video:
I would say the first time that I failed, I definitely felt inadequate. Once I kind of looked around and saw that other people were struggling just like I was, I realized that it's just a difficult environment. And I was going to have to learn to adjust. So I reached out to professors and I reached out to peers to see what they were doing that was making them successful at Kelly. And I started following those steps that they had laid out, things like going to office hours and getting peer tutors and doing study groups with your friends. It's better to reach out before you have a problem rather than after the problem occurs. So building relationships earlier on can really help you out in the long run because if a problem comes up or there's a concept you don't understand, you already have the relationship to go reach out before it escalates and you don't do well on a test, or you feel like you're beginning to struggle in the class and aren't understanding concepts building off of each other. Reaching out for help was definitely one of the biggest things that helped me overcome failure. If I had dealt with any sort of failure on my own, I wouldn't have had the tools that I needed to ultimately succeed. It's more rewarding having failed a lot than having never failed at all, because overcoming difficult circumstances and failures through your years at Kelly makes it that much sweeter when you do succeed because you know you've overcome a lot to get there. Pressure if you succeed can be great, but I have strengths and weaknesses just like everybody else, and my weaknesses don't define me.