It's Always Best to do it Right the First Time

This week in one of my classes, my assignment that was due was to go onto the internet and complete a survey. After the survey was completed, I was to write a seven page essay on the feedback that I had received. I thought that this assignment would be easy and that I could quickly write my seven page paper on the evaluation. Writing the essay was simple, the problem that I came across was when I did not read the instructions before starting the survey. I didn't realize that the survey was going to cost me twenty dollars and even though I didn't want to pay for it, I had no choice. Honestly, what is twenty dollars anyways. As I submitted my payment online, it came to my knowledge that I had not read the instructions that my professor had given me and the survey that I had purchased was in-fact, the wrong one. Now instead of spending twenty dollars of my well earned money on a survey for school, I had to spend forty. 

This experience that I had was not a big deal. I spent twenty more dollars then I intended, but that was fine. I learned a valuable lesson though. Even though, in my mind, I thought I knew the exact survey to take, I should have read over the instructions my professor had given me and chosen the correct survey in the first place. From now on, I am going to make sure I read the instruction before doing anything. Even if it takes some extra time and I think I know what to do in the first place. It's always better to do it right the first time.