Failure has been my most impactful experience. Most of us encounter failure here and there, but for me, I was never met with constant failure until my senior year of high school. Many students across the United States, including my peers and I, we began our college process, focused on applying to colleges as well as scholarships to fund our education. Due to my legal status, as an undocumented student, the college process was different for me than for my peers. Scholarships offering aid to undocumented
Into College? Learn to Fail.” is that colleges do not look for perfection and unflawed students, but rather students who have failed and have the determination and learning experience to get past that failure and achieve greatness. Students from across the world believe that colleges look at GPA and perfection of their reflections in their personal statements, but really it is the opposite such as the stories of defeat and triumph that students learn from and overcome. “Want to Get Into College? Learn
dictionary defines success as: “the correct or desired result of an attempt”. Simple as that might seem, success is more complex and elaborate than just a concrete definition. Success demands so much out of a person and if not sought after accordingly, failure will surely take hold otherwise. In order to get the desired result, a journey must take place. Students in elementary, middle, and high school all know the feeling of advancement; to progress to the next grade level and start a new school year. This
Everybody loves a loser and i know i am definitely one. The lessons we learn from failure helps us to be successful later in life. My trials and tribulations are what made me more ambitious and determined to reach my goals. Over the summer of 2015, I was accepted into the New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program which only lasted for six weeks. I worked at a daycare which was an amazing experience. After the six weeks, I was out of a job, but I was determined to find steady work.
do not consider it to be laughing matter at all. I, myself, just recently got over a case of depression. I struggled with depression for many reasons, the main reason being because my future was not going as planned. I am a freshman in college just not at the college of choice. I see now that it is not important as to where you get the education from, but as long as you get it. This realization did not come easy or overnight. I had dreams of going to Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi
odd if someone has not been put into the education system starting from kindergarten to graduating college. After high school, teens are under extreme pressure to join college, which can result in changing their personalities, possibly for the worst due to the pressure. Concluding, fresh high school graduated may get pressured by – increasing their worries about keeping up, having a fear of failure, feeling stressed causing anxiety, and having a lack of self-image and feeling socially pressured.
College is like riding a bike. If you're reading this for the first time as a freshman, you'd probably assume the statement speaks of the journey of college as difficult in the beginning but surprisingly enjoyable by the end. If this is your assumption, congratulations: you are misguided. The statement "college is like riding a bike" lacks a few words. College is like riding a bike, except there are no handlebars, the bike is on fire, you're on fire and everything else is on fire because now you're
During his talk at Stanford’s 2015 graduation Ceremony, Steve Jobs gives the students very helpful advice about being confident and staying positive throughout life. Because he is talking to college graduates who are about to enter the real world, it is good that he told them about his own experiences, because they can hear about a successful person’s struggles. During his speech, he talks about how he had to sell bottles to be able to afford dinner, had to walk 7 miles to get a good meal once a
Murphy’s Law Bad luck is something that seems to haunt people and I'm sure that all of you assume that you have the worst luck; nothing ever goes the way that you plan. I'm also very sure that none of you can exactly pinpoint where your luck goes wrong. Well I can. Your bad luck is a result of Murphy's Law; a law that affects us all. No matter how hard you try to escape, Murphy's Law will find you and turn things from bad to worse. The most popular version of Murphy's Law is "Anything that can
start falling behind on my grades because I had been emotionally unstable. Junior year was when I felt the sudden pressure for college admissions, giving me anxiety and stress, suddenly becoming overweight and unhealthy. By senior year I thought I had finally put my life back together, but by then, it was already too late. I had been denied admission from my dream college, the University of Texas at Austin. Being denied admission was truly the most devastating news I had heard. Seeing all my friends