Just do your best. So this is something I'm posting much after the fact, but what else is new? So finals week...rewind a couple of weeks.
I was feeling a little low about finals prospects. It didn't really seem like I'd be getting as many As as I would have liked to pull out. But that morning I was studying the scriptures and I read the parable of the talents. And I had never really applied that parable to myself yet! I realized that a couple of classes that semester in particular were subjects that seemed very abstract to me. I began to think about and realized that in the scenario for those classes maybe I was like the man that received one or two talents instead of five. But the thing I love about the parable is that it didn't matter how many talents they started out with, just how much they were able to increase what they had been given. I realized that Heavenly Father was fully aware that maybe I didn't start out with five pathophysiology talents. But if I did my best, that would be enough. I didn't start with five talents" and I probably wouldn't end with ten talents (like an 'A' perhaps). But say I had been given two talents in that aspect. And if I could add a few more to that, that would be great. And Heavenly Father would be proud of me for that.
So it's not about the final grade. It's about the progress. If you start out with a really difficult subject for you but are able to become more comfortable with it by the end even if you're not a professional at it, that's okay! Actually, that's great. So just keep that in mind for next finals (since it was too late for Fall finals ( maybe I just got one "punctuality talent") :)
