Personal Narrative: The Upside Of Quitting

On a spur of the moment, it recollects my memory of how negative-minded I was when I encountered a big problem, especially my second semester at Riverside City College in Professor Crampton’s Math 65 class. Although I did not think of me being negative-minded, stress made it seem like I am, which resulted in me feeling not motivated. What should I have done? Until I read about the mindsets, I realized that I have used my fixed mindset as an excuse. While I need to change my personal mindset, but I am currently strong in the areas of grit and the view of quitting in order to be a positive-minded person I want to be.
Now, I am taking Math 35 for this semester, each lesson is gradually getting harder and confusing at times because I am certain that a month break after this past summer semester may be at fault and partially
Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, I have learned what premortem is and how surprisingly similar is it to the last winter semester debacle I had. After successfully aced Math 65, my view of quitting has changed. During winter semester, I had accelerated courses that gave me a lot of lessons, assignments, and quizzes, which overwhelmed me. Of whether I should withdraw from a class or not, it took quite some time to consider the options. After meeting with Dr. Scott Brown, the Student Educational Plan (SEP) counselor, he gave me a few valid points regarding dropping out; first, class might not have another slot open, second, class might be available, but not in the desired schedule I want, and the list goes on. Then he advised me not to drop out, and I decided to take his advice seriously. Throughout the rapid semester, I had to work harder to maintain my knowledge and grades as well. In the end, it had been difficult; however, I felt greatly accomplished acing my Math 65 that I never thought I could. That is my premortem, which means “to find out what might go wrong before it’s too late”