About two months ago, I absolutely failed a midterm. To make that situation worse, I did poorly on a paper and had a group blog due that I had done almost no work for. I had a 56 in that class and was ready to resign myself to failing. I scheduled a class to make up the lost credits and stopped paying attention in lectures.
Luckily though, the professor gave my class so many opportunities to do better. He extended the due date for the group blog, allowed us to rewrite our papers, and assigned extra credit to change your midterm grades to a 75. Because of these, I was able to raise my grade from a struggling 56 to an 80 and I don’t have a single C this semester.
It feels really good to have succeeded when I expected this to be my worst semester ever.