just failed the first physics 109 exam

I know this happens to everyone at least once, but I’m a 4.0 student, a senior, and I just walked out holding back tears because I realized I skipped the whole front page of the exam (because it was the easiest, so I left it for last… absent mindedly forgot it existed.)

I’m so disappointed in myself. I knew all of the subject material. I understood it conceptually.

I know the logical thing to do is just study harder and be more aware next time. But damn 😭 this class is supposed to be easy, so I’m embarrassed. It is a little frustrating that we were given 50 minutes to complete something that takes a while to compute, I guess? The homework is expected to take over an hour and it was an equal amount of problems on the exam.