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Summary Of Perfection By Kathryn Dewitt

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Students lacking coping skills for achieving anything less than perfection is a serious problem in today’s students. The article portrays this issue perfectly because it explains how after Kathryn DeWitt received a sixty on her midterm, she thought the only way to resolve her problems was to kill herself. She had not learned to cope with receiving any grade less than perfection. She did not know how to handle the stress of the thought that her whole life was off track. This article portrays how delicate this situation is. DeWitt explains, “I had a picture of my future, and as that future deteriorated. I stopped imagining another future.” She had thought her whole life was ruined just because she did poorly on her midterm. This shows just how
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