Just Ask

It is amazing how you think you have everything for the most part worked out and how you feel that everything you do is now a habit that usually works out for the best...and then life throws you a curve ball...you swing and you miss and end up not knowing which way is up and which way is down.

Finals will do that to you...or at least it does for me

No matter how hard you study during the year, it always seems like you forget everything and have to relearn everything within a two day span...ridiculous 

But with trials comes lessons to be learned and learning is definitely what I have experienced in the last couple of days.

I have always been one who enjoys studying by myself, figuring things out by myself, not wanting to ask for help and studying in ways that most would call cramming. But hey it worked...or at least it did last year...or was it high school...

Studying in college is definitely different than it was in high school, when life was easy...cramming, while it works in the short run, does nothing for the long run...a lesson hard learned by this individual.

Sure it took me well into college to figure out that studying in college is much more than cramming but better late then never, right?

But mostly what I have learned in the past couple of days it that it is ok to put your pride aside and to ask for help when you don't understand, both from a Father in Heaven and friends who may know a little more than you. Asking shows that you are ready and willing to learn, to understand and to grow. Plus it doesn't hurt your test score either :)

I still like learning things by myself but I now truly know that not everything can be learned by oneself and that you must be willing to ask and who knows what you might learn...or get on a stats final