<p>On MIT's application this year, they have a question that says:
"Tell us about the most significant challenge you've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you manage the situation?"
I honestly haven't experienced any great hardships in my life, so I was thinking of writing a more lighthearted essay about a time my friends and I joined one of our school's sports teams, and it turned out to be much harder that we anticipated. Do you think the admissions officers would look down on that as me trivializing the question?</p>
<p>It depends on how you approach the prompt, but I think that there is definitely a lesson to be learned about “biting off more than you can chew” by joining a sport’s team that you had different expectations about. That can definitely fulfill the prompt.</p>