Throughout my educational journey, I have failed...a lot. At some of these roadblocks and failures, I have even been encouraged to quit, give up, accept the failure and move on by educators, advisors, and friends. Where so many others would have given up in my situation, I often ask myself, why didn’t I? Why did I constantly not accept my failure and push on? I believe that attribution theory can explain this. I have always had a belief in that, I am capable. My parents did not necessarily help me with my homework, or provide the support I may have needed in school, however they never doubted my capabilities to be whatever I wanted to be in life. They instilled the belief in me that hard work can achieve anything. I believe that this is a huge reason why I never gave up. I always rationalized that I didn’t put in enough effort into my school work or I had a life circumstance that got in the way; because I didn’t blame the cause on my abilities, it resulted in me working harder, repeating courses, and never giving up. When I was applying to get into the science program, I had an advisor who told me, I would never get accepted, unless I got an A in my current biology class I was in, which by the looks of it, I couldn’t do. I left that office crying, however, I went on to get an A in biology, accepted into a biological science program, and graduate with a bachelor of science. All thanks to the belief that I was capable.
