Essay Tip: Share an incident or time when you experienced failure. How has it influenced you and what lessons have you learned? It's strange to think that failures can sometimes bring out the best memories and enrich conversations with the funniest stories; as if the disastrous set of circumstances that caused frustration and annoyance to the highest degree were to be considered a positive thing, and that the severe discomfort or pain resulting from a failed event brought joy and contentment. Many people who have experienced failure are usually not overjoyed or satisfied with their current situation, at least when caught in the moment, and yet, after their trials – many years later – they can be surprisingly enthusiastic about sharing their experience. A very funny series of failures occurred when I was about fourteen: after exhausting my family's supply of batteries to power my electronics projects, I decided there was no time to waste in designing and building my own power supply, the result of which proved to be an invaluable and rat...