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The absolute best thing you can do is give yourself time to grieve…yes, grieve. This is a loss even if you were at fault. Then, sit and figure out exactly where things went wrong. Don’t beat yourself up or make yourself feel badly about it, just look at it from an objective perspective and use it as an opportunity to LEARN. Everyone, and I mean everyone, makes mistakes and does things in their life that they’re not proud of. You need to make sure, especially if you’re feeling this badly about it, that you figure out how to use it to your advantage in the future. Then, allow yourself to move on and make a plan to continue on and do whatever you were trying to do. It might mean enrolling in another school, it might mean working at a job for a little while to get back on track before you tackle education again…not a lot of details to go on in your story. But the one thing is, it’s happened and you can’t change it but you also shouldn’t let it be the thing that defines you or makes you feel like you CAN’T move forward.