Reply to What’s the biggest mistake you have ever made?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "What’s the biggest mistake you have ever made? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Missed an exam in the first semester of college.  The listed exam times for every course on a massive online, text-based matrix.  I misread the matrix and read that it was a PM exam (it was actually am).  Day before the exam I was in the library studying with friends talking about "tomorrow's exam" - so nothing registered.  It was so astoundingly stressful, and this was a massive public school where shit like this doesn't get a pass (I went to a private law school in the US - they would have worked something out for me).  Instead, they let me take the exam the following summer.  Guess how well I did on that multiple choice 20th century Russian history exam 8 months later?

It sounds like a dumb thing in the grand scheme of life, but 23 years later if I think about it I get a pit in my stomach.  And it was an unquestionable "mistake".  Not just a "regret" or a black hole of bad decisions.  Like, I regret dating my emotionally abusive college boyfriend for 2.5 years, but that whole period was full of mini mistakes, and learning experiences, and a whole lot of grey chaos - but very few "black or white" decisions that could be later deemed "mistakes".  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics