Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Challenge 22: Risk


16. Describe a risk that you have taken and discuss its impact on your life. (Kalamazoo College/93)

Studying for tests have never been a chore, but rather something that I do automatically a day or two before the actual test date. For some reason, as the years passed by, the urge to study started fading away and I constantly found myself trying to run away from it. No matter how hard I forced myself to study I just couldn’t find myself sitting down for more than 30 minutes reading a text book.

It was a cold winter night, and I had my final math test the following day.  That night I opened my text book, turned on the desk lamp and sat down on the chair wearing a thin sweater. I thought the cold would keep me from falling asleep, but unfortunately I couldn’t resist my warm bed calling out to me. I found myself lying in bed, reading the textbook but it was obvious that I was going to fall asleep. Before I shut my eyes, I set the alarm at 6 in the morning so I could study then. That didn’t work out either as the grey clouds in the morning sky tricked me into going back to sleep.

The following day was horrible. I thought I did pretty okay on my test, but the results were not even close. This one test brought my whole average down and there was nothing I could do about it. This was the last test for the term and I had risked my grade for sleep. Knowing that I failed a test made me feel miserable and its impact on my grade showed me the importance and the effects of studying. Whenever I find myself acting in such a way again, I think of this event as I never want to experience that feeling again.

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