Can you tell me if this essay topic is appropriate for this usc prompt?

College Essays
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<p>the usc prompt is :
Thomas Edison failed many times before successfully inventing the modern electric light bulb. He said, "If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." Reflect on a challenge you overcame through persistence.</p>

<p>I am going to write about how i was supposed to run a 7 mile run and instead got lost with my friend and ended giong like 13 miles. We asked many people where the street was but they all directed us wrong or we went the wrogn way. Fuinally, we foudn a pair of stairs by sheer luck and went down it adn made our way back.
Is this topic significant enough?? It's probably going to beter than it sounds :/</p>

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<p>I think that topic would be fine so long as you have some sort of “message” to go along with it. In other words, I would not simply recount the story as it happened without explaining WHY the experience was significant. For example, did it take you through parts of the city / town you live in and force you to see things you haven’t seen before? Did it cause you to learn something about the people you talked to while getting directions? Did you learn more about your friend during the ordeal? I would definitely have some sort of a take like that in order to make the essay more meaningful.</p>

<p>I thought that was sort of a hard essay to develop a topic for, so I ended up going with the “What Matters to Me” one. Good luck!</p>

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<p>nice, thanks</p>

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<p>Yeah! yeah! yeah!</p>