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Common app essays, part 1

Topic: The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you have experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? I was a shadow. I walked, but I was not seen. What people saw in me was the outside shell. They saw a girl who was not affected by stressful moments, a girl with perfect grades, and even though she was not that social, it was fine. But no one really saw the troubled girl with a mind full of turmoil, a heart full of darkness and a future full of nothing. Sometimes, I would force myself to smile so that no one would see the wars going on in my mind. In reality, I did not remember how to be happy. One can wonder what brought the wars in my mind. Sometimes, In the middle of the night when I awoke with a start, I would wonder what turned me into the shell of a person I had become. It had started in the last days of February. I had panic attacks for no reason at all, and sometimes...