26A Celebrating Failure

26A – Celebrating Failure

It wasn’t this semester, but it was just before. Yes, it was Banko’s class. Business Finance. I started the class late due to another class’s instructor that quit after the first week, so I switch to another class. You never want to start late in John Banko’s class. As I went through the class, and did the math problems in the book, I understood them, they made sense, and all was well, or at least I thought. First exam came, fail! I thought, well, the first exams are always tough until you see what the instructor is like and what he is looking for exactly. Second test came along, fail!  So, I dropped the class. 

I, of course, had to retake it right away and I thought after researching the class that if I had just studied the old exam problems, it would be a piece of cake! So, I came back armed with that knowledge, studied until I thought my head might explode. First test, fail!  Oh, this is awful, I thought. I understood arbitration, I even liked it, but he threw in a third dice instead of rolling two and seeing the outcome, now there were three. I had no idea of what to do with that. He supplied old test problems to study, all 800 pages of them! I must have missed that one. Second test, fail!  Oh well, I guess UF is over. Couldn’t take the class with another instructor, couldn’t take it off-campus, I was stuck. Third test fail! But then a miracle happened, and Banko curved the grades. I was in… Thank God!  

I'm telling you about this most embarrassing time for me with the hope that I might help someone else. My advice, if you haven’t taken Banko’s class yet and you’re not a finance person like I’m not, Study the old exam problems, watch his lectures, but, mostly, study the old exam problems, the Real Deal pre-exam quizzes, and the segment quizzes. You can even elect to use Study Edge. Do the quizzes over and over since they regenerate the problems to give you new ones. This is a key point. You cannot study the Real Deal one time. It's just not enough. You won't cover enough problem types. Keep in touch with him. He really will do everything he can to help you with anything you’re confused about. Then pray for a miracle!!  Lots of student’s passed his class just fine.  I learned that you must give challenges everything you have, don’t let up for a minute. You never know!

This Entrepreneurship class along with past experiences have taught me so much. Failure is part of life. It's stinks, but, there's only so much we can do about it. The best thing to do is to move on and forward to a new project, class, product, etc. We all have so many good business ideas, and I'm sure they're not the only ideas we have that are viable and strong. I am more likely to take a risk now, and I don't overly stress about that one thing being perfect. Life isn't perfect and neither are we. Life goes on and we have to just breathe and keep going, and enjoy the ride along the way.