Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Everyone goes through negative experiences in their lives and it is how they react to such failures that determines their character. Just like everyone else in the world, I have gone through my fair share of failures. One being that I was not accepted into my schools freshman mentoring program during my junior year. The freshman mentoring program consists of a group of upperclassman guiding incoming freshman as smoothly through their first year as possible. The feeling of utter disappointment I felt after receiving that rejection letter was confidence shattering, but I pushed myself past that and ended up in a better position
