Fall seven times, get up eight.

I think this proverb express a lot of wisdom, because in life everybody is going to "fall" a lot of times but the important thing is how you handle that "fall", I think that the word fall in this proverb means: lose, fail, or any word that express failure, and is interesting the use of this word because in life when you acttualy fall you feel disapointed.
I simple way of rephrasing this proverb in my own words would be: "never give up".
An example of a real instance in my life when this proverb was used could be when I lost twice the course of analitic and cuantitative chemistry at the university but I didn´t gave up and finaly at the third attempt I make it, I pass the course.

My experiences as a student and what I would change.

When I got into the "Universidad de Costa Rica" I really don´t care too much about grades, I used to go to the university to talk whit my fiends and drink some beers, actually a lot of beers, at the begining it was like a dream I enjoied so much and everything was perfect, but some how I failed the whole first semester, I mean I failed all the courses, even "Humanidades", and anyone failed that course just me, after I wonder to my self: What is going on?, I discover that maybe if I study instead of drink beers I will success in academics, but sometimes is easier to think someting that make it true.
I tried to stop drinking again and again, but I couldn´t, then I went to study to San José, where I didn´t know too much people, but it was just matter of time and I got new friends to spend time drinking beers.
After a few years I decide to stop drinking and amazingly my grades improve a lot, I mean a lot, I reach the best score of the 416 students registred in animal science in 2006.
Probably if I could change something of my student life, it would be the amount of alcohol that I used to drink, maybe the half of the beers would be enough.