After the first semester of straight A’s, my grades slowly declined every semester after that until I was making straight F’s in college.

Though making straight F’s wasn’t a goal I set out to accomplish, I gained more from making straight F’s than straight A’s.  That might sound weird, but I’ll go into more detail towards the end.  For now, lets talk about how to accomplish this spectacular goal.

Shouldn’t be too hard right?  Maybe you’ve had some experience with this already? I don’t want to keep you hanging any longer because I know you’re on fire to hear how to make this happen, so here it is.

Don’t Listen to Yourself

Just go in.  Don’t think about what your ultimate goal is or what you want or where you want to go.  Let everyone else tell you what you should do.  Take anyone’s free advice no matter who they are, and let it pull you in many different directions.  Don’t listen to yourself because you’re probably wrong, and whatever you want out of the college experience doesn’t matter.  Push your wants, desires, dreams and visions to the side and listen to people who’ve lived longer than you tell you they’re unrealistic.  Be fearful of people saying “I told you so” if you fail at accomplishing what you want.  Whatever you do, DO NOT listen to someone who’s already been where you want to go.  You might actually take advice from that person and use it, and we can’t have that if we’re trying to make straight F’s here.

Don’t Pick Classes Until You Have To

Does it matter what classes you make F’s in?  You’re not going to get credit for them anyway.  Just take some classes you think might be related to your major/minor.

Don’t Be Prepared

You don’t need the book until later in the class right? right.  Housing? Transportation? Schedule?  You’ll figure that stuff out later.  The first day of class?  Nothing happens on the first day anyway.  Just hope that it will all work out and everything will fall into place exactly how you want it.  Don’t think about it.

Feel Bad

This was the most important factor in my success in making straight F’s.  Get wasted.  Party all the time.  Play video games a lot.  These are all good ways to get away from your problems and ignore reality.  You need to ignore anything you think you should be doing.

You don’t know what you want to major in? You’re questioning if this is the right road for you to go down?  Should you exit the highway now and try an alternate route?  or should you stay the course?  Well, it really doesn’t matter because you don’t know where you’re going anyway if you followed the first step in this article.  The great part about this whole situation is that you’re already where you want to be.  Confusion!  Keep wondering and stay confused.  The last thing you want to do is stop and ask for directions.  Don’t try to clear up that confusion with counselors or advisers or anything else you’re paying for with tuition.  No mentors.  You must stay confused.  You could, however, ignore your confusion and try to work around it.  Yeah.  That usually will lead to frustration, and frustration without clarity = More F’s baby! F for fantastic.

Feel depressed and indifferent.  Constantly think about the negative stuff in your life like loneliness, bad grades, lack of money etc. Let all that stuff bring you down.

If you’ve been following directions you should have some built up confusion, fear, frustration, and depression.  If you are experiencing those, great! You’re on the the F path.  Let those emotions soak in and get comfortable.

Don’t Go To Class, Don’t Study, Procrastinate

If you’ve been following the steps mentioned in the previous paragraphs, this shouldn’t be a problem.

So there you have it.  Follow these steps and you’ll be on the road to failure at it’s best.

Maybe you think making F’s is bad.  Looking back, I see there was too much I gained from those F’s for me to consider it a bad experience now.  Although at the time, it seemed horrible.

A’s Vs. F’s

What happened after making straight A’s?

• People were impressed - They tell you they’re proud of you and good job.  This includes employers who see your transcript which can have its advantages if you’re seeking a job or internship.

• Self-esteem boost

What happened after making straight F’s?

• There was no more fear of failure – I made straight F’s, and it wasn’t that bad.  I’m still alive.  Though I thought it was bad at the time, it turns out that the “bad” was just a result of my thinking it was bad.  In high school, I tried to avoid failing because I viewed failing as bad and negative.  That’s just not how life is though.  How did you learn to walk?  Did you go to lectures or classes and take a test on it?  I hope not.  Most likely you jumped right in and failed repeatedly.  People probably even laughed at you and thought it was cute when you failed.  Too bad nobody thought my F’s were cute.

• Gained clarity - Making straight F’s forced me to stop and look at reality.  It forced me to realize that something was wrong and it would continue to be wrong if I didn’t stop and address the problem instead of trying to ignore the problem and work around it.  Financial aid getting cut off and getting exited from the College of Business within the university also helped with this.

• Overcame depression

• Found a field that I’m passionate about – I found the field of personal growth and development.  Before I didn’t even know it existed, but now I can’t get enough of it.  If I wanted to, I could use what I learn in this field to recoup the wasted money I spent on tuition.

• Realized I can’t live to please other people -  Some people became upset with me once I started making  F’s.  It’s like they forgot all about the straight A semester.  I realized their attitude towards me depended on the grades I was making in school, and this was partly why I tried to avoid failure.  I wanted to try to please them.  Life is just a lot more free when you don’t have to try to please anyone anymore.

I don’t think there are too many people that want to fail.  However, the worst thing you can do to yourself is live in fear of failure.  Winners expect failures and learn from them.  They don’t let them get in the way of accomplishing their goals.  Strive for the A, but don’t be afraid of the F.

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