Failure

I've learned a lot in college. Not only have I learned many things academically speaking, but I've also learned some great "life" lessons, if you will. One of the very best things that I've learned through my time at UCO is a little something about failure.

In the design courses here, they encourage us to fail. I know, you're thinking: "What?!? Why would they encourage you to fail?" Well, it's not quite what you might think. They encourage us to take risks. To be on the edge. To fall down. To fail, and to fail miserably. Because, in a sense, it's better to fail miserably and know why you failed and how to reign your ideas back in then it is to "play it safe".

Of course, like many things in academics, this can be said of failures in your day-to-day life as well. If you never try, you never know what might be. What didn't work. What might work the next time. You get the picture.

Sometimes, you might just have to fail to succeed.