Right after receiving my admissions decision from Stanford, I was very discouraged for Stanford had always been the only university that I really wanted to be part of, envying those who were supposed to have been admitted to Stanford. But I soon came to realization that I have given my best and thus I have nothing to be either ashamed or embarrassed about. “Why am I so obsessed with the result when I have nothing to regret for?”

All of us, likely to live only for seventy or eighty years...