In high school doing extra credit was something that you didn’t have to do, but was kind of forced to do anyway. Some classes would give you these extra assignments for something as simple as staying after school and help clean or show up to a school event. I rarely did extra credit in high school because my grades were already high enough, but in college extra credit is COMPLETELY different. The first few weeks of my freshmen year some of my professors said there will be extra credit towards the end of the semester, and others gave out extra credit opportunities as soon as we walked in on the first day. In a way, I just wanted to get the assignments out of the way, but then again I was thinking to myself, “What if I make a bad grade and don’t have any extra credit opportunities left?” Luckily, I followed
