Hi guys.

Recently, one of my homeworks for my Fluids class was graded and we were finally able to see the comments left by the grader. I opened my assignment up and found that I had lost a bunch of points for mistakes like missing a 2 in my calculations or using the wrong conversion factor. Totally fine and now I know to be much more careful when doing my assignments, but the grader left many remarks like "Obviously you weren't paying attention to how the problem was phrased" or "obviously this is just carelessness on your behalf" or "obviously, you didn't put enough effort into checking your calculations" which was a serious self-esteem blow. I've been putting a lot of effort into understanding the material like going to Office hours quite often and spending hours reading the textbook. It really hurts when someone tells you that you aren't putting enough effort.

I'm not trying to get sympathy for missing points, but I was just wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation where now they don't feel like they can do any assignment right and don't even want to try? I know I will just study harder next time and be extra careful, and my motivation will return within a day. It just stung haha