Almost one year ago I enrolled for the University of Texas
at Tyler’s Masters Degree program so I could pursue my MA in English. I was
enrolled under what is called “Provisional Acceptance,” this meaning that, while I
had not graduated, I was within a few hours of my goal. The semester before had
been genuinely awful: I had failed two courses, two courses I did not feel I
was particularly good at, and I was also worried about re-taking these courses
and doing Provisional Acceptance courses too. I was so worried about how I was
going to succeed at these two undergrad courses. One of was Biology and I have
never found the subject easy because of the tension the tests gave me.
