Failure is a fundamental part of life. We all experience failure many times throughout our life, but the first time I experienced true failure was when I was in middle school. It was my eighth grade year and the class was Algebra 1. I had never really struggled before in math; all my classes had been a breeze. The first semester was all review, so my grades started dropping during the second quarter. I had managed to drop my grade all...

I’m applying to the college of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan and I find that particular college interesting for a variety of reasons. The college contains many different majors so there’s a plenty of people to interact with; I won’t only be interacting with people from with the same major as me. The major that I’m planning to pursue when I go to college is biology. The program for biology at...