Thanks! I’m glad you found this article helpful. Good luck with the rest of your applications!

I just wanted to say a short thank-you for your post. I read your blog regularly for the advice on post-secondary and just recently got rejected for first round (yep, first) of interviews for the Loran. As you can imagine, I was pretty devastated. I think I still am, but this post helped reaffirm my positive thinking that this is just another learning experience.

Take care,
K

It happens to everyone at some point or another – I’ve seen even the best students bomb a test for the first time ever. You just have to keep your head up and work a bit harder next time to pull that mark up. Don’t let a single event like a test get you down!

At that moment, I just lose all my self-esteem and be like “Wow… I’m worthless.”

And then you feel like you want to beg the teacher for sympathy marks but then you know he won’t give them and there’s nothing you could do about it. What happens next is that you put your head down the rest of the day and pretend that you’re just tired… What a horrible experience.

I’m sorry to hear your scholarship hunt is not going as well as you hoped it would =/ You have to just keep your head up. The more you care about it, the more it hurts. If you didn’t care at all, it wouldn’t hurt. I think it would help to try and step away from all of it, and take a break.

As for your undergraduate decision, I don’t know how dentistry works, but I doubt it matters where you go as long as your marks are good and you take all of the required courses.

Good luck!

Don’t give up =/

I know exactly how you feel – losing and disappointment is just a part of life. It’s important to remember that losing is absolutely necessary for winning to exist – if we couldn’t lose, how could anyone win? They are necessary opposites.

If you never lose or fail, you won’t be able to appreciate all those times you succeed =)

I feel like I’ve gotten a bit better with handling loss. When I got the rejection from Ottawa’s medical school, I didn’t feel as awful as I thought I would. I was sad for maybe a minute, but after that, I forgot it.

It probably helped that I already had a McMaster interview, but I’m pretty sure that if this happened say a few years ago, I would be devastated. You will get better with these things in time, for sure.

I’m really glad it helped! =)