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“Believe it or Not” There comes a time in your life when you believed in something that was likely to be true but in the end it turned out to be opposite. I think all of us can relate to this. I know as kids, you probably used to think Santa Clause and his elves were really real. If you were to leave your tooth under the pillow at night the tooth fairy would come and get it. As we got older, we would realize that all that was just fiction. We also realize that as we got older we would start believing in things that were more serious like religion, politics and so on and so forth. One belief that I’ve always had was that studying didn’t pay off. I was so convinced that if I had study for a test, that it wouldn’t help me get good grade. In the past I wouldn’t even bother to study for most of the tests or quizzes that were given to me. I felt that there wasn’t any point in me studying because I believed that if I didn’t understand the topic/subject that studying would be pointless. In fact, I would do worse on a test when I did actually take the time to study than the time I didn’t. To get by these tests/quizzes, I would either have asked someone to explain the topic/ subject to me or just cheat. In my he