I wish I had made more of the opportunities I had in school. A lot of times I got bad grade not because I wasn't smart enough, but because I didn't try. Now look where am. I am going to have to find a minimum wage job.

I also got bad grades because I was too slow doing things. Math is a good example of this. I was very good in math, but it took me longer to solve equations and stuff like that than it would for others. The results: a I failed (or got a lower grade than I should have had) a lot of math tests not because gave the wrong answers or didn't know or understand the material, but because I couldn't answer all the questions in the time giving for the test. I was forced to leave a lot of the question blank and there were of course marked wrong. It was very frustrating. I would get test back with an F on it, yet I knew I could solve all the problems on it correctly if I was just given enough time(which would probably have to be twice time give for the test). Yet another frustrating thing in math: teachers that only look at the final answer to math questions. I can't count how many questions I got wrong, not because I didn't go about solving the problem in the right way, but because somewhere along the line I made a simple math error(which is very easy to do when you are trying to solve complicated equations and you only have a limited time to do so). Some teachers would look at the math work and would give partial credit if it looked like you went about solving the equation in the correct way. But other teachers just looked at the answer and if it was wrong, it was wrong.

I am curious what Boost thinks of my comments.