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Failure shouldn’t be how you learn to be a good student

Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor When I first got to SFU, one of the first jokes I heard was that the most relieving thing you could hear from a peer is “I haven’t started either.” It’s not exactly an extreme statement, but it’s far from the only time you’ll hear students here making light about unpreparedness, disorganization, or failure. I’ve seen a lot of things like a TA assuming the tutorial hasn’t done the readings, or mocking a friend’s detailed calendar as “working too hard.” But once you start really failing — like I nearly did a few years ago — your opinion…

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