You can’t redo the semester, but you can redo tomorrow. That’s the only do-over that exists anyway.

The past is closed and the next day is not. Most of the energy spent wishing a stretch of time had gone differently is spent on the only part of your life you have no access to, while the part you can still shape sits there unattended. Tomorrow is the only correction available.

Stop relitigating the term or the year that went badly. Choose one thing about tomorrow that would have helped back then, and do that instead. A better tomorrow is a smaller ambition than a rewritten past, and it is real.