College Admissions Essay: My Greatest Failure

My Life, I don't know what to do with it… it’s just a mess of this, and that, and the other. All of my life, Horrible, like I should just be tossed aside. I don’t have good grades, I’m not good at any sports. I’m not good at Anything…

They say that there is nothing to fear but fear itself, yet I tend to disagree. Our world is packed full of things to be afraid of. As a child, we are afraid of the dark or monsters hiding underneath our beds; but, as we grow with wisdom and age, those fears become bigger and more worldly. We fear things like terrorism or illness. The fear that consumes me most is that my best might never be enough.

Rather than one failure, this essay will involve a series of failures that changed me as a person.

Failure is a part of everyone's daily lives; however, depending on the person you are you

Just as there are noteworthy examples of excellent college essays that admissions offices like to publish, so are there cringe-worthy examples of terrible college essays that end up being described by anonymous admissions officers on Reddit discussion boards.

Every day, every one, in the world goes through a challenge, big or small. They affect and impact us significantly. They change the way we think, love, act, and approach or do things. Challenges either frighten or motivate us, but they are what make us the person we are today.

In the early years of life, most children do not spend their free time looking in the mirror and wracking their brain for an answer to the question, “What are you?” I suppose that particular experience is quite unique to my childhood. For as long as I can remember my race has been something that comes into question or speculation in some way or another. To this day, I struggle with my identity due to being a mixed race individual.

If I were to be asked what my biggest fear is, my answer would be failure. I say this with great pride because although it may be a lot of people’s fear, it has been my fear since the day that I understood the concept of life and what our purpose is on this planet. Dating back to my family’s previous generations, education has everlastingly been the topic of discussion at any given time. When my grandparents were my age, they did not have the money or the ability to get into college and therefore were unsuccessful with their careers. My father, at my age, was the first person in our family to finish high school and advance to college, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business. In my generation, I am the first of my family to graduate

Growing up in a big family of two brothers and six sisters was not easy, and what made it harder was living in a small village that practiced strict cultural and religious traditions. In our village, those practices prevent girls from continuing their education. In fact, most girls are obligated to quit education and to get married after finishing middle school; sometimes, even earlier. Fortunately, my parents, who both did not finish their middle school, gave my sisters and me the option to continue our education on one condition – to be successful in school.

Early in life, I realized that education often determines one's destiny. Being born and raised away from city with a remote and long isolated community, exposed me to the challenges of facing poverty coupled with squandered opportunities for education, health, and happiness. Though struggled to meet days end , my father insisted me along with my three siblings receive education to break this notion. He inculcated in us the compulsion to strive, the talent to prosper and the ability to overcome failure are strongly inherited. Even though confronted the stigma of social status, my parents relinquished us with every possible comfort in the defiance of material paucity........I fear I never noticed those tears melted away with water dropping

Have you ever been so overwhelmed with life that you feel like you're on your own, and have no one to turn to? Or have you ever been caught in a situation where you knew you were doing wrong, however you still continued to do it anyways? Well I was caught up in both of these situations. I found myself contemplating where to go, and what to do.

My freshman year of highschool I came to a turning point when my goals for the future outweighed my negative mindset. In the first weeks of my freshman year, I choose to use the failure I experienced so providentially in my past to motivate me throughout my following high school years. I started

(Essay #1- Bad Decision) As a 22-year old female who thinks she knows everything, I sometimes make bad decisions. There was one particularly terrible decision that still haunts me to this day. At the time, my question at issue was whether I should go spend the night with a boy I barely knew even though no one would know where I was and, not to mention, risk losing my parents’ trust.

Failure to me is more of a meaningful lesson rather than a reason to give up. A temporary detour, maybe, but definitely not a dead end. There's no way to avoid the inevitable so take advantage of it. Welcome failure with open arms. Embrace every loss, every failed attempt, every mistake and learn from it. Most of my lack of success has come from surrendering to defeat or not giving my all, although, in some cases even that wasn't enough. I've failed at relationships, I've failed in school, I've even failed at sports, but in every circumstance I've come out a better person. Perhaps not in that exact moment, but eventually I did. There is one time in particular when failure was a recurring presence and seemed like a challenge I never overcome

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed-”Dolly Parton”. This reflection reflect my high school journey because I have failed a lot of classes but I never felt like a failure.