Cliche as it sounds, I learned my greatest lesson from my mother. She has been an inspiration to me as a little girl and I still look up to her to this day. The mentality she bestowed on me was that I can achieve anything in life, just as long as I work hard to achieve it. Although I didn’t totally understand it as a young kid, I’m starting to understand her as a university student. Everything you do in university reflects on your attitude and your commitment to your goal. There is no “free riding” in university because starting from grades, your lack of effort immediately reflects on that 40% midterm. Although there might be moments where you don’t want to study for a test because you don’t feel like it – this current mindset will have consequences in the future (like taking summer school in the summer). The present is the present, and then it will become the past. Just as long as you do your stuff and hang tight for that one exam or anything in life, you won’t ever regret that you pulled through. So a mindset I have acquired is to just do it, don’t prolong the inevitable.