She knew she was intelligent, no one doubted that. Everyone knew what she was capable of intellectually, she was good. So, when her colleagues where running helter skelter to prepare for their professional exams, she just smiled to herself, "I don't need to stress myself, this is not the first time I am writing this exam". She thought

It was her sixth year in medical school, so far, she had been nothing short of amazing, coming tops in all her exam. There was nothing to worry about, she was going to thoroughly cover her books a week to the exam, like she had done before. But unknown to her, the universe had a different plan. One Sunday morning, she started feeling a slight headache, she brushed it aside, thinking it was just stress but it persisted. That slight headache metamorphosed into a full blown fever. She couldn't study like she planned to. Three weeks later the results were released and she failed woefully. Had she prepared earlier like her colleagues, it would have been a totally different story. She had no one to blame but herself. A stitch in time saves nine.