Trials and Tribulations of Economics Class

Freshman year of college was a year full of general education requirements I had to fulfill before I moved into specific classes for my major. One of these classes I was required to take was economics. Everyone who had already taken economics warned me that it was a pretty difficult class, especially considering it was a basic, 1000 level class. So, I decided to go ahead and get it over with first semester because I knew if I did not I would be nervous taking the class and worrying about it all first semester was not going to do me any good.  I am not so good at math and it was scary coming into college and hearing a class I needed to take was going to be difficult.

So, I went ahead and enrolled in the economics class almost all students were required to take. The first day of class I went into it fully prepared and ready to listen, take notes, and fulfill all the homework requirements. The first couple of weeks did not go as badly as I thought they were going to and I managed to do pretty well on the first few quizzes our economics teacher gave to us without warning.

Unfortunately for myself, I came down with a terrible virus a month into the school year. I had a fever that would often go up to 104 degrees, was vomiting regularly, and was so weak I could not get out of bed. For a week I laid in bed, feeling miserable, and skipping all of my classes including economics. Skipping economics was nerve wracking and frustrating for me because we had our first test scheduled for the following week, and I was determined to do well on it.

After a week of lying around, not keeping any food down, and running a horrible fever I had lost over ten pounds. I was still skipping classes because of my situation; skipping economics was making me increasing more and more nervous.  One night, I was feeling so bad my roommate decided I needed to go to the hospital. They checked me in, decided I was incredibly dehydrated, and put me on an IV. After sitting in the hospital all night being pumped with saline, they released me the next day.

Things did not get any better for me following the hospital stay. I continued vomiting and running a fever and my stress level was increasing daily because of the approaching economics test. I half heartedly attempted studying for it but I was feeling so terrible absorbing any information was difficult.

The economics test was scheduled for 8 PM on a Monday night. That morning, I was feeling worse than ever. I called my best friend and told her I needed to go back to the hospital. She picked me up and we checked back in where I was, once again put on an IV.

I brought all my economics study materials to the hospital, and as I lay in bed I tried to cram before the test that night. As the test approached, I eventually gave up on the studying. I figured I would either swim or sink depending on how difficult the test was.

An hour before the economics test, I had still not been released from the hospital. They told me that my fever had to go down before I was technically allowed to go. Well, my fever was not going down and I had a test to go to, so I told them I was leaving whether they liked it or not. I was determined to take that economics test!

Well, I took the economics test and needless to say, I bombed it. I remember I got a 55% on it. The worst grade I had ever, in my entire life, received. Fortunately, my economics teacher had a policy where she dropped our lowest test grade of the semester. Thank goodness for that! After I finally got better, I had to learn the hard way the best way to study for tests in college. Luckily, I did learn and I ended up passing economics with a B. Not the grade I wanted, but I was not too hard on myself considering the rough situation I had to go through that semester!

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