Warm fuzzy feelings

Despite today not being all that great...What with being sick, lacking almost any sleep, and an EXTREMELY long night at work, I'm still feeling really good about myself. Today I proved to myself I can still make myself do what I think is right, no matter the consequence. Recently we had midterms and for one of my classes that in all honesty I was surprised I did as well as I had. We had a very low class average, the exam was difficult and seemed a little obscure at some points but still I made it through with a fairly decent grade (please understand that my grades drive me to do what I do) our instructor had given everyone bonus marks because he felt he'd failed us as a teacher (not worded exactly like that but pretty much). So what you ask? I couldn't accept those marks, I just couldn't. Especially not when he was essentially sacrificing his dignity and blaming himself for our failings to do it. So today I went to his office, and told him that I didn't want the extra marks. To all of you it may not seem like such a big thing, but it was important to me. I've worked for everything I have, I did it on my own without help just to be independent and I want to earn everything I get. It meant something to me, and after I left his office...I still had the extra marks, but I think both of us felt better about ourselves.

-Matt