My Answer:
I met failure when I did not achieve my expectation of becoming what I really want to be in life. I really want to be an expert in something I can truly be, personally and professionally, proud of in all of my life. I am good in math and computer programming, but not in all academic areas. Nonetheless, I intend to take a baccalaureate course that is, directly or indirectly, related to my aptitude. I want to apply my logical-mathematical skills in the course I would obtain to be socially admired and financially stable later in my career. Then, as I continue to take up a graduate degree course that is in line with my undergraduate degree, I also would like to bring positive change in many people’s lives.
At the moment, with the undergraduate degree program that I hope to pursue at the University of Purdue, I have to maintain a can-do attitude so that I do not have to recount and sulk over my past failure of not keeping up with my expectation. As a young individual, I still have more time to improve my skills and study things hard for me to learn without much perseverance, hard work, and smartness. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that the lessons that I would learn from my previous and possible future failure can be stepping-stones for me to keep up on continuously improving myself. My motto bears resemblance to my personal philosophy in life that the sweetest success is when I learn to face my deepest fear and overcome my greatest failure of not doing my best in life.
In conclusion, having learned from my past failure, I should always remember that experience would always be my greatest teacher. Even so, I do not have to learn first from experience to learn a lesson about what success is. Likewise, I do not have to be complacent or mediocre for not trying for fear of failure. In life, I can also learn from other people’s mistakes and successes to become a better person. Thus, my perspective in life defines who truly I am and what I would become afterwards.
