My professor had an announcement up and this was the P.S.

If you are feeling down for any reason during this season of the year or perhaps this season of your life, it’s okay, you are not alone. We all walk through dark periods in our lives, some harder than others. Only remember that the difficult times, though sometimes long, will pass, and the sun will shine in blue skies once more. Stay strong and keep the flame of hope, however faint, burning alive within you.

I’m going through a really hard time, academically. I did not take this past semester anywhere near serious, and I’m suffering the consequences for slacking off. I guess I never really grew up mentally. I still believed I could breeze through school without actually putting effort into my work. I didn’t think that college was going to be any different. Naive and ignorant.

If and when the clock would strike 12, and it’d be January 1st, 2011 instead of 2012. I know exactly what I would do differently. Just those simple P.S. words from a professor I haven’t even met yet made me want to burst into tears.

I’m not going to let this obstacle take over me. I’m not going to let it happen again. I hate that it took this much to actually make me realize that I need to try harder. Well, we all learn one way or another right? Well, this was a definite wake up call. I’m shutting out the world once the semester starts again. I don’t care if I’m stuck with general education classes, I’m going to treat them no different from my major classes.

I am NOT going to be a failure.