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I decided to become insanely meticulous with my note-taking and began a long process for every chapter. Each class period would cover one entire chapter and sometimes two. In class I would take notes on what the professor had prepared, then I would go to my dorm after class and read the entire chapter from the textbook and add anything I believed to be important. I would then copy my notes from my spiral notebook to my computer simply to reinforce them. I also decided I needed to look for outside sources besides just my professor and textbook. So I went online to Khan Academy and learned from the instructional videos by the great educator Salman Khan. My hard work was producing better results and I battled my way to a B+ in the class before the final …show more content…
After I realized it was still possible, I was not going to be denied. I studied for that test for two weeks straight, staying up until 3am on several occasions. I was going to give everything I had so that if I failed I would not be able to look back and regret not trying harder. I felt confident after the exam but still not certain. When I got my score two weeks later I got a 91.6%... 0.4% above what I needed… I had done it… but just barely! That proved to me that all the extra effort I had exerted was entirely necessary because if I had not given it my all I surely would not have earned an A in the