Celebrating Failure

1) My midterm exam that I had for another class this semester is one that is constantly on my mind. I wouldn't exactly say that I failed it, I just really didn't do well on it. Not only did I not do well on it, I expected to do much better on it. I studied for a few days for this exam, and I felt pretty confident about it beforehand. Once I got to the exam, I was very confident on half of the exam, and the other half I wasn't so confident on. Part of this is my fault, and I have accepted this as my fault, yet it still bothers me. The other fault that I see in it is the fact that the professor didn't tell us that we didn't have to study for that part. He told us that the part in which I was confident in was going to be most of what was on the exam. He even told us not to study on some of the parts that were questioned on the exam. Regardless, he's not to blame, rather I just failed to study for part of it.
2) I learned that when studying I can even contact the professor and ask what I should expect to see on it. Looking for direction before an assignment or an exam is totally acceptable on the part of a student. I from now on will definitely be looking for direction to prior an exam or an assignment I am unsure of, with the professor. Plus, it never hurts to ask the professor for thoughts and expectations.
3) I think many ways about failure. Failure is very hard to accept. Failure is also one of those things that can be great for a person if they take everything they can from it. Failure can teach people to change something for the better. It can also make people learn from their mistakes. I think that learning from failure is one of the best aspects of it. I handle failure in different ways, it just the depends the caliber of failure. Sometimes failure just means that more work is needed. On the other hand, it can mean that you didn't do well on an exam and your final grade will suffer a lot from it. I always try to handle failure from the perspective that you can learn something from it. Each loss (failure) to me is just experience, and there should always be something that can be taken out of that loss that enhances you as an individual. I am definitely more likely to take a risk now than I was four months ago. Just because of the way that this class teaches us about how to deal with failure. The perspective of many people, including mine can be changed if people accept failure and learn to deal with it. If there is anything that this class has given me, it is the fact that I can accept failure and learn from it each time.