I think technically, 70 and above is a passing score for any quiz, but I never thought of it as passing. An 80% or higher is passing, and that’s what I finally accomplished today. I will say this though, if I had stuck with my original answers on two of those questions that I missed, I would have made a 100%. Thinking about that makes me want to cry, but I’ve already shed enough tears for today. Seriously, at the last question of the quiz, I had a tiny meltdown. I had to pause in the middle of taking it to eat and calm down. I told myself when I came back to it that no matter what score I get, it was going to be alright. I just accepted the fact that I just couldn’t figure it out. This morning I created a log post on my 100 Days of Code repository and rewrote it three times. The first couple times I had written in the ‘thoughts’ section about the fact that I was nervous and was worried that I wouldn’t passed. Then I scratched it all and wrote at last, I will pass with an 80% today. I think the universe sent it back to me. Looking at all of my previous quiz scores, there is obviously a slight increase in the overall score, so that must mean that I’m learning something, even as the lessons get more and more difficult. I thought it was just me having a hard time parsing through loads of code but it isn’t, apparently the quizzes give almost everyone a tough time. Anyway, I worked up a lot of my nerves the past week preparing for this quiz and I guess it paid off. I’ve started writing anki cards for most-used methods so that’s what I’ll continue to do for today, just to let my mind rest a little bit. Tomorrow I will have to jump back into the Small Problems exercises. *cries inside* So those are even tougher than the ones in the actual lessons and make me feel like a dummy more than anything else I’ve encountered in 101. My goal was to take the assessment in September but that might be pushed to October. I’ve realized that I absolutely need that time to let this information sink in.

On a side note, I’ve noticed a changed in my body: I have more energy. That doesn’t mean that I’m not sleepy or wishing to sleep (because I am), but I’ve noticed that I’m able to endure…things. Before, I’d lay in bed all day and not want to leave for hours. I’d sleep in, not study that much, and physically feel like I had to drag myself to do literally anything. For the past week I’ve taken my iron and vitamin d vitamins and I suspect that has something to do with it. Oh! 5 days in a row, I’ve done my exercising on the row machine and took only one day off to rest, and resumed. Never in my short life have I had tone legs, but now that I’m forming them, I can’t imagine what they even felt like before! I feel so much stronger. It’s such a great thing feeling that I can hold myself up and do things for an entire day without losing the energy completely like what I’ve been feeling for years. Hopefully this lasts as long as I keep up with it.