Undergraduate / I will never regard difficulties as defeats again but as opportunities to enlarge my achievements. [5]

Difficulty needs not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. (under 300) (Amherst Supplemental Essay)

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"You can't take the test since you don't have ID written in English," the instructor said. I felt as if my heart is stroked by sharp knife. If I couldn't take the November SAT test, I won't make it on time for Amherst admission. I cried out loud, "Why me?" Since as an international students, the SAT test was so difficult, not to mention my first time taking SAT and I felt like giving up, why would the unexpected event discouraged me again? For a while, I lost myself because I was tricked by the impediments.

But soon enough, I realized that difficulties were not the harbingers of despair. In fact, they were the motivators which pushed me to succeed. Because of that event, my chances to get in Amherst are getting lower, so I committed myself into admission essays and other tests. I tried more and more because I know that the success or getting accepted from Amherst will be the happiest event in my life. I got more confidence because I couldn't afford to let these difficulties knock off my feet again. I believe that in the end, I would be satiated enough depending on how challenges I faced.

To get accepted from top college like Amherst might be as difficult as to get to the top of Mt. Everest. Even if it's true, I won't give up because the more the obstacles surmounted, the more satisfying the success is. I will never regard difficulties as defeats again but as opportunities to enlarge my achievements.