Look at the bad grade straight on. Avoiding it doesn’t make it go away; it just makes it scarier.

An unopened result grows in the dark. The longer the portal stays unchecked, the larger it gets in your head, and by the time you look you are braced for something worse than what is usually there. Avoidance does not shrink the problem; it removes your ability to do anything about it.

Open it today, read the whole thing including the comments, and write one sentence about what went wrong. Then do one concrete thing: an email, a question after class, a plan for the retake. It is unpleasant for ten minutes and then it stops being frightening.