Failing Forward: A High School Chemistry Story

Listen, failing a test does not make you a failure. And I learned

this the hard way in the most ridiculous way possible. Picture this.

I'm sitting in my high school chemistry class. Rocking my dad's old cap because

I thought it made me look smart. Sporting a beard that looked like

I glued coffee grounds to my face. And wearing these absolutely unhinged neon

green glasses I found at a thrift store. I genuinely believed I was the

main character. We had this massive exam worth forty percent of our grade.

I studied for maybe twenty minutes total, convinced I could absorb information.