Varshney |3 of what I had worked on over the summer. Eventually, | found out that all the hard work over the Summer paid off, and 1 had made the team! When the practices and games started, I had a great time. From scoring baskets to playing defense, | felt like I was eontributing to my team. I may have not been the star player, but it satisfied me that out of so many’ basketball players in my schoo], I had become one of the best. a EY ‘This experience showed ie that even after getting rejected, an individual ean always improve and prove themselves to other people that they deserve to part of a team or group. Far ‘example, Abraham Lincoln lost many elections before he became president. He kept working at it and eventually accomplished his goal. Thomas Edison failed matty times before he invented the light-bulb, but eventually did succeed in making it beewuse he never gave up. Like them, I now know und have experienced thal if I work hard towards @ goal and never give up, I should eventually succeed.