I have to say this is one of the most frustrating things for me to hear from the teenage crowd. I have always been the kind of person who cared about grades, and this isn’t just a teens thing. It is true for me, too. But not everyone is that quick to care. And not everyone is as quick to feel that they are not good enough, they aren’t smart enough, or the right person to be at the table.
I’m not saying that every teen is like this. I’m not saying that every teenager who cares about grades is a bad person. But for some reason, when I get to college these days, I am not as quick to care about grades as I used to be.
How about this: if you are at a stage in life where you are not sure if you are the right grade level for your classes, then you need to do better.
It is true. I just don’t want to be one of those people that thinks that it is okay to just fall out of a class because I don’t know what I am doing. It makes me feel like I am doing something wrong when I don’t know what I am doing.
It’s true. There is no question that a good number of people who start college with a poor GPA (and maybe a few more who start with a good one) don’t graduate. In fact I am hearing a lot of complaints that their “graduation” was just an excuse to get a job. It used to be that people would just get a job and be set for life. Nowadays people just get a degree and never do anything meaningful with it.
As I mentioned in a previous article, it’s very easy to get out of the habit of getting an A in school. So if you are one of the people who do, you want to keep it up. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but its a reminder to yourself that you are not going to get an A.
That being said, in my experience as a teenager, getting an A in school did not hold any great value. It wasn’t just a meaningless exercise of getting an A. It was a meaningful and very important thing to do. It represented a large portion of my teenage years, and it gave me a place in my life that I was proud of. I wasn’t out and partying the night before. I was attending a class and having fun, and that was what mattered.
I’ve never been one to get into the whole “I’m gonna be A student, and I’m gonna do A job, and I’ll be A good kid” routine. I’m not into that. I think I’ve always done the best I could in school. I’m a hard worker, and I like to do my best in school.
I have always gotten better grades in school, and I always did my best to do my homework, and I did my best in school. Ive always had a positive attitude and a good outlook on life, and that is what mattered.
Your grades are your own private indicator of the quality of your performance in school, and that matters just as much as your grades. Your grades, and the way you perform in class, can be the difference between failure in school and success. It’s not a coincidence that we find ourselves in this situation every now and then. Everyone’s got to go through it at some point.