Being Unprepared

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When I was in high school, I was in the band. We lost a competition last year because we had won it the year before, and were cocky enough to think that we could just go down and win it again. We didn't even work that hard in practice for this reason. When we got to the competition, we lost it. We didn't only loose it, but we lost it by a large point margin. If we had prepared ourselves better, we may have been able to win it.
Then comes the subject that every student knows well: tests. I have taken, and failed a few tests because I didn't study. I have also gotten lucky, and passed them with a good grade. I recall a story of one of my mother's friends, Mary Kirby. When she was in college, she had an anatomy test. All of the people in the speech department had to take this course, and not many of them did too well. Mary did not study for this particular test, and went to take it. When she was handed the test, she broke out in hives and subsequently received a ...

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