There is Always Hope

During this semester’s exams I learned a new lesson (or maybe just remembered it):

There is always hope. I was preparing to flunk out. I did a moderately good (!) job in previous semester but I didn’t feel good about the way I took exams. I the passing weeks I did some projects and extra work (!) to make my grades. And now after two weeks in new semester I’ve been informed that I passed all of my courses (Yay!). But if I had greater morale I could do something useful between semesters. Oh well, I will do better in future.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

—Architect, The Matrix Reloaded