Taking entrance examination twice

Taking entrance examination twice

200900547 Kim Si Eun

p67  second draft

'Failure is a stepping stone to success' . I realized this saying through taking Korean entrance examination twice. I'm not telling some obvious and boring story like I failed my first test but studying harder, I got a great grade in my second test. I failed my exam than before. Then how could I choose this failure for stepping stone for my life?

I learned that failure is not only limited to result. At first time, after taking second entrance examination, I resented my test score. I did my best and I believe this time is last chance of my life. But how could I get this result I had never taken before? So in my first year at university, I didn't believe any word related to efforts and didn't want to try harder to do anything. But time after time. taking a course named 'establishing with a little business', I thought again about examination. In that class. professor told us to follow what you want not to follow what other think it is better. After hearing that word, I looked back upon what I want, Taking good grade in exam and going to so called SKY university was what other think is best. I didn't know what was good for my life. Not only that class, meeting with various people in HUFS also changed my thought. I joined club activity called Sife, which helps people who need our helps. Through that club, I learned that I could help other people with what I had even I had really small things. I learned that taking entrance examination was not the end of my life and I have to ready for my real life. Also trying to read all kinds of books also made me mature. Especially Jang Young Hee's essay told me one failure doesn't mean whole failure in our life. In world, everything couldn't works as I expected. It was not based on skepticism. By changing my view, I accepted my ability and knew which part I could do better.

To make failure become my stepping stone, I had to accepted it. First time I avoided it and I am busy in hiding it. But it didn't solve my problem. Right now I try to face the failure squarely. Taking exam was the best chance in my life because it was the biggest failure I got. But nothing could give me such a big lesson. These days When I get a chance to try to take other exam or do other thing, I apply my lesson that was finding which part I could do and being good at. These day I felt failure truly become my stepping stone.