Okay, so it was the day of my AP English Language exam in junior year. I was fully ready to go.
Everybody's getting settled.
We're about to start like pre bubbling in the forum code and the forum version and one thing I do before any exam
I take my glasses and I wipe them gently with whatever like shirt or sweatshirt
I'm wearing. The glasses just breaks, straight through the center.
It's such a clean crack and like I'm left with two identical pieces in both hands and I'm like, oh my god!
What am I supposed to do? I'm sitting there frozen for like a minute and I'm like having an internal panic attack.
So I run to the front of the cafeteria and I see the proctors like HELP my glasses just broke.
I don't know what to do and they're like, can you take the makeup exam next week and I'm like
no, I can't because I'm taking another AP exam that week, that day, and they're like, okay
well, can you try to take off your glasses and I'm like no, I can't because I have terrible eyesight and they're like
okay, well we can't do anything. Like I don't know what you can really do, it's just all on you now and I'm like uh-huh.
At that time a librarian for my school happened to be walking by and I'm like HELP my glasses just broke
I don't know what to do,
can you help me? And she's super nice and so she's like
Okay,
I can try, and so she runs to the library and she gets the paper crafting tape and it works!
It just takes a really long time.
They have started the exam and I'm still like trying to fix my glasses.
So I run back to my seat and I'm like, okay.
I'm gonna do the pre bubbling now at the part where I put in like the form code in the form version and by the time
I actually get to the multiple-choice section I'm like five minutes behind and I'm like, oh my god. I'm like panicking on the inside.
I don't know what I'm doing!!!!
I'm just marking down answers at this point cuz half of my mind is throwing myself a pity party and
the other half is like okay, come on Manaal. Let's do this! It's like every few seconds
I had to adjust my glasses. It would just get really bent and I wouldn't be able to see anything
so then I had to push it back up again or adjust it.
I was a so behind schedule I felt so out of it.
I was like halfway crying while taking the exam like tears are falling onto my paper.
But I got through and I'm okay, you know, even if I don't do well, it's fine. It's fine, I
just deal with it and and I go home and I can cry a little bit more and I'm so upset with myself.
But then a month later, it's June and I log into college board to get my scores and I just stare at the screen,
because I had gotten a five and
that's the maximum you can get and if you get a five that's like the equivalent of an A!
But even still I managed to get a five. I think that's just a testament to how much were able to overcome our obstacles
I think a lot of times we just get really discouraged by like impediments. We're like, oh no, we don't know what to do
We give up in the end. Like I did well, and I've definitely learned from this experience