Help! UC essay #2

<p>I somehow managed to get over 1st personal statement but second essay was a real hard task to me. Could you please help me to fix that essay? Thank you in advance</p>

<p>“Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?” </p>

<p>A clock is ticking on the wall, counting the last ten minutes to submit our app. However something went wrong- the screen of the app is blank and all this seems completely ruined for our team. The manager announces that the presentation of apps is upcoming after five minutes, we still can not find our bug, so we are trying to find our mistake by randomly changing code. Luckily, we find out what was wrong and submitted our final app just couple of minutes before the final deadline. The relief and joyfulness in my face was so big that I had forgotten to prepare to speak and present our app. Despite of that the presentation succeed and everyone was happy with our result.</p>

<p>These are the moments from the “Wix Hackathon”, in which me and my friends were trying to make the Skype Widget for Wix App store. We were the youngest participants there. Nevertheless, we proved that we can make apps as good as computer science graduates. Creating that app was not something like a big accomplishment for me, but seeing Wix employees congratulating us and telling us: “Wow guys you are so young but you performed as well as other participants in the Hackathon. You will see that couple of years later you will hopefully create your own startup” really made us feel proud of our work.</p>

<p>When I registered to the Wix Hackathon all I knew was a little background in programming that we learned at school and home: some C++, Java, HTML and CSS. However,In the event we were ought to create a web application and no one from my team had a background in web development before. In two days period during which we coded the app, I have learned more about creating web apps than I could learn in one month if learning by myself. Our team was consisted from only three persons so I had a great chance to express myself in different areas: from coding the app to marketing it and creating its logo. The period of two days is a really short time for developing an app so during all event we had to rush, and didn’t have much time for resting. Despite of that the constant rush and adrenaline really motivated me to try harder and achieve what then looked impossible - to create a full working app. I find this quite parallel to my life because I always try to create goals which would be challenges to complete and love working forwards achieving them.</p>