How Kiwin Changed My Life

When I was younger I failed myself and my family when I got held back a grade because I was not showing any progress in any of my subjects. I lost all of my friends, they began to talk bad about me because they thought I was not as Intelligent as they were. This effected me emotionally, I begged my parents not to hold me back a grade and to let me stay with my friends but my parents being tough said no, because school isn't about being close with friends, its about learning and making something of yourself. I learned a very important lesson the day I got held back a grade and that is to never give up and to strive to be the best in anything I do. I also learned that friends come and go, and that I can make more friends. I started studying every

I strongly believe that every failure is a learning experience that should be taken as a lesson to grow from. I previously attended a 4 year university that became too much for me; attending school full-time, working 35 hours per week while trying to figure out what it is that I really wanted out of this university experience. I ended up failing most of my classes, putting my health at risk drowned by the tremendous amount of stress and just wanted to completely give up. Looking for a fresh start I decided to leave my university, and attend Norwalk Community College. Though this decision created self-doubt in the beginning, it soon came to my realization that it was the best decision I ever made. Immersed in an environment full of positive people, I was able to grow from the experience.

I decided that I was going to go to Craven Community College and work on finishing the classes I needed to get my high school diploma. Unfortunately, that did not happen either. When I was seventeen, my mother unexpectedly passed away. My mother was my best friend and it was a huge loss to me and the rest of my family. I went through a period of grieving which lasted for almost a year. The subject of school was brought up again and I decided to get my GED from Craven. The fall after I received my GED, I started my first semester. I had to deal with anxiety and this feeling I had that I was a failure. I had to remind myself that I suffered in school because of my mental illness, not because I was stupid. I have recently started my third semester at Craven and I have a 4.0 GPA. I still have to deal with anxiety, mood swings, and stepping up as a mother figure to my little sister, but I have never let any of this bring me down. I have not given up and I never will. I use my past experiences as a way of reminding myself have far I have come, and that I am strong enough to take on anything I want to do in the future. That is why I feel like I would be a good candidate for

Morihei Ueshiba once said, “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” Throughout my life, I have experienced countless failures; nonetheless, the lessons that I learned from my failures prepared me for the numerous successes that I have had. My most significant failure was not making the All-City Honors band. My failure was due to me not taking a challenge and trying to find an easy way out of the situation. In the end, I learned to humble myself and to not be afraid to take on a challenge. My lesson helped shape my future decisions and successes.

My life was suddenly changing right before one of the biggest changes: high school. I had more things to worry about than other high schoolers. I had to figure out how I was going to get home, how I was going to get the house clean before my mom got home, how I was going to get dinner started, all on top of getting my homework done. Due to this, I wasn’t as serious with my grades. I let them fall even though I knew I could do better. I was just way too busy to focus on school when there were more important things to focus on- my family. I slowly found out how to balance everything to get my grades up. I had to learn how to balance my life to make myself happy while keeping up my

The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

My failure helped me understand not only what I did wrong, but also it helped me understand myself better. I realized that it was not truly my wish to be a member of the Honor Society, I was doing that to please my parents, my friends and my previous teachers. I learned to be myself, despite the situation and be humble, without studying even if you have the potential you will not achieve anything, success is ninety nine percent hardworking and one percent perseverance, it requires effort. After crying in front of hundred students I finally got the strength to be myself no matter what, I became emotionally stronger and overcame my shyness, or part of it. The embarrassment of my failure not only made me the smartest girl in my school, but also

Throughout my life, failure has been a constant reminder of how much I more I have to grow and learn. A time when I have experienced a significant failure was in my Calculus AP class. Before this class I would've thought that math was the easiest subject for me, hover, upon taking this course I've never been more wrong. The failure in this class progressed from a D to and F. I was devastated when I realized how inadequately I was performing, compared to previous successes. I remember studying all night for a test just to receive an F on it anyway. It was then that I realized that I was missing a fundamental step in the problem solving experience. Since I usually make really good grades, the thought of having an F on my progress report was eating

Failure can be a very difficult thing to cope with. It can be something that makes you or breaks you. I have learned that failure is what defines a person; it shows your motivation to bounce back when things get rough. I have learned from my failure instead of dwelling on it and making myself weaker.

Major changes in my life have affected my high school career, but a large impact came from the death of my father in eighth grade. Before his passing, I was an average A/B student in middle school and even elementary school, which quickly changed in 8th grade when my classes became too hard for me to handle. I decided the best thing for my mental health was to drop out of my higher level classes. This lead to being in standard classes throughout my first year of high school with minimal effort from my part. After constantly missing school, I failed my second quarter. Instead of bouncing back from this, it pushed me down, making me believe I would never be able to recover. Without any motivation, I ended my ninth grade year with a grade point average of 1.4.

The whole experience has shown me that some things in life, including your own failures, can only be fixed or achieved by your own personal goals and your own personal drive. It has helped me become more independent and to not sit back and let others do the work for me. It has given me self-motivation. Some obstacles cannot always be conquered by the assistance of others, but by your own motivation to defeat those hardships. You need to find yourself to succeed from

My greatest failure was how I reacted to getting a “C” in my middle school science class. Growing up my grades weren’t the best in middle school, but for the one year I had to get perfect grades to go to the highschool of my choice I ended up getting a C in my science class and ruining my chances. I had let down my family. Seeing their faces on report card pickup just drop down in disappointed is a miserable sight that flashes back to haunt me at times. Yet my reaction to that failure was the real mistake I made because I had sworn to become a student that got all A’s, I had lost my self worth to a letter and had a letters dictate how I lived my life.

I worked hard my freshman year, tried to get good grades, impress teachers and try to talk to more students and be open. It wasnt easy.I made the mistake of drawing myself away fromt others. I couldnt open up to anyone and kept my emotions inside which affected me greatly.

However, what I was able to learn in the long journey that was unfortunately terminated early are invaluable experiences that are more than enough to negate the discouragement of any loss. After all a failure is only truly a failure when one fails to learn anything from it.

My biggest failure is an action that I have regretted on it a lot. But at the same time it was a good experience that I learned new thing from it and I become more careful in the future, in this topic I’m telling the story of my failure, and what I benefit from it. My failure had created after choosing a wrong decision while knowing that it’s wrong, because I didn’t think or care about the results and how it could affect me in the long term.