Failure is a huge thing in life, if someone doesn't fail they never know what it truly feels like to succeed. In my life I've failed many times but I've been more successful because of every failure. A time of failure I am going to share is when I was being recruited by Vanderbilt University but my standardized test scores weren't high enough. I went on my unofficial visit to the school in April of 2015 and I remember talking to head coach, Darren Ambrose on the last day of my visit and he told me that as much as they wanted me to attend Vanderbilt, I wouldn't be able to attend unless I brought my scores up. I was crushed, I felt like I failed because my scores weren't high enough, I felt dumb. I've been through many failures but nothing like …show more content…
I had such a strong (antipathy) towards everything after hearing this news, I didn't want to talk to anyone or do anything. On the plane ride home I remember crying a lot and just thinking about how my dream to play soccer at Vanderbilt had come to an end. When I got home I had a family dinner and I caught my family up on my trip and I told them how I didn't think I would be able to get my scores to where they needed to be, and they thought I was being (preposterous) After hearing my family all give me some motivation and pick me up, I realized that I wanted to prove it to myself and all the doubters that I could make it into Vanderbilt. The next day my mom registered me for the June 6, 2015 SAT, and the next ACT that was available. I went to school and asked my teacher Ms. Serina to tutor me everyday and help me prep for the big test days! As a recruited athlete I have a curved score scale, I needed to get my scores to a 1700 on the SAT and a 24 on the …show more content…
When the SAT date came I was so nervous but I was so ready, I took the SAT and just needed to wait for the score report, then I took the ACT and I gave it my all! After getting me scores back for the SAT I went up 330 points and I was ecstatic, and I called my coach right away! He was absolutely blown away and couldn't stop expressing how proud of me he was, he told me that he wanted me to "Verbally Commit to Vanderbilt" and I did during that phone call! Then I got my ACT scores back I increased from a 18 to a 26! I called my coach and he was again blown away and just expressed how much he can't wait for me to be apart of the team! "I did it, I really did it" is all that was going through my head every time I thought about it! I can't wait to start my life in Nashville, Tennessee at Vanderbilt University! I realize now that if I hadn't failed by not meeting the score scale at first I wouldn't have realized how much hard work truly pays off if you give it your
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
Like many students, when taking my SAT’s, I was distressed that if my SAT scores were low, I was not intelligent. The anticipation had me waiting at 6 o’clock AM on the computer waiting for my scores. This feeling of guilt and failure washed over me as I looked
Failure can cause a torrent of mixed emotions and thoughts. One can begin to doubt their motives for even attempting to succeed at a certain task. Some people may choose to give up after failure, but there are a select few who rise up to the occasion and move forward to try and succeed no matter how many tries it takes. By overcoming those difficult moments in life, it gives a person a sense of accomplishment and pride and that alone is a beautiful thing.
Failure isn’t always something you have control of or have the ability to predict. Failure seems to happen at the worst of times; however we need to accept it, because you cannot always win. My greatest failure would be tearing my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), my junior year in a lacrosse game, through no fault of my own in which my body physically failed me, but it truly changed my aspect of life in multiple ways.
When I think about my past experiences of when I failed many scenarios come to mind. Us as humans beings are bound to fail at one point in life but its how you learn from them that makes it a fundamental. I came to a realization that all my past failures have played a huge role in my life, all of which have been either a lesson or an eye opener. The most vital scenario is when I failed to make the grade point average (GPA) required by my school to run track my first year entering high school. This event played a major role in my high school life.
In all honesty I give the credit for my score to Ms. Rice from the career center at school for having the ACT and college meeting in the spring. Without that meeting that day at school, I would have never put thought into what it takes to be a hard working student and what it takes to achieve an academic goal. I needed to make a change for the better and I did. I am a lot more motivated to do well in school now and have even decided that I want to go to school and major in pre-med and eventually become an anesthesiologist as my first choice, general practitioner as a second choice. I learned that it is never too late to make a change, I know that my late change in academic behavior will hurt my chances to get into a good college, but I now have the drive and the knowledge to get things done and achieve my goal.
Throughout my life I have failed many things. Some of them were big things and others were minor ones. A great example of a failure I had was my first wrestling match. I started participating in wrestling my sophomore year of high school, and I had no idea n how to do anything. I would go to the wrestling room every day after school to practice and try my best to get better. The practices were not easy, it required a lot of mental and physical strength to be successful at it. When I started I was having a hard time getting used to it because my mental strength was not as strong as my physical strength. Eventually I got used to it and practices became easier. I started to get my confidence during the practice wrestling matches we had with fellow
Many people have these failure to success stories. The failure they experienced made them take a different perspective to get better, and work hard to
Entertainment changes the world. Newspapers, radio, T.V., comedy, theatre, and other forms of entertainment influence public opinion and the world. Throughout the history of the United States, no form of entertainment has play a part as unique and important as music. From the snare and piccolo cadences of the Revolutionary War to the Grunge movement in the the 1990’s, music has shaped American culture, defined generations, and sparked social and political change. I am proposing a seminar based around music and its influence in American history.
The process was very difficult, but i managed to start. This gives me even more motivation to do my best because i dont want all that time and hard work to go to waste. There will come a time when i have obstacles and setbacks, but If i stay focused, determined, and work hard i think the good will definitely outweigh the bad and i will be a successful college
Again I swallowed the capsule of failure and trudged on to change my future. I did physical therapy with renewed determination and pulled my grades up to
At first, failure was none of my business: I did not really care how high or low my grades were. But when I suddenly experienced what failure was like, I did not like it one bit. In fact, a fear started to grow within me. It was like a hideous, chupacabra-like alien had landed on my territory and I felt I had to do everything to get rid of it. I studied mathematics very hard: harder than I ever had before. I studied how to divide 9 by 3 and 8 by 4, even if I so despised numbers to my very core. I did not like them because they made things abstract to me. Things which I knew became unknown w...
That failure isn’t the end. My sister has always done well in school and now she is attending Purdue Lafayette for pharmacy. She hit her first wall in her academic career with bio-chemistry and failed the class, even though she worked very hard (trust me, she did). She acted like it was the end of career, that she could never achieve here dreams, and that it was an embarrassment to fail. Me looking at here situation, it wasn’t that big of a deal.
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.
I tested again junior year and still didn’t score high enough to qualify. So, my senior year I got my act together, studied, and even hired a tutor; I felt confident I was going to pass this time. I scored below the cut off. I remember the hour-long drive home after the test, I was upset, frustrated, and confused. I thought “how could I do all that work and still score so low?”