[cbanek]

So it sounds like you're saying young to mean "before entering the job market?" Of course if you find a good job, hopefully you will have many things you are proud of working on and doing. I think being a professional, getting paid, and having people actually make money from the things you do is a pretty impressive achievement, and even more so if you do it for yourself (run your own business).

For people still in school, or applying to school (which I'm guessing is the application you're filling out?), I would say it's about projects. When I was in high school in 1998, I built a "portable" MP3 player using Linux and old computer parts that I put into a backpack. It didn't have a monitor, so we used the keyboard LEDs as control system. It was called the PIMP - the portable illegal music player.

Was this some impressive achievement that no one else could have done? Certainly not. But it's something you can talk about. Overcoming challenges are the achievements, what challenge is interesting to some, but how to overcome is interesting to more!