Undergraduate / "PANDA IN LOVE, a business leader" Uc prompt 2 [3]

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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?

When I was sixteen years old, my friends and I, who all share the same passion for making things by hand, decided to develop our own brand of handbags called 'Panda in Love'. We wanted to know the sensation of working and gaining money by ourselves, independent of our parents. However in the end, I learned much more than that.

At the beginning, the process of making these handbags was going very slow because we made a lot of careless mistakes. We later realized that teamwork was necessary for us to succeed. We each have different skills and therefore decided to delegate the work. My strong area was painting so I used all of my artistic skills to make each bag unique. Of my two other friends involved, one designed and the other tailored. After that we seemed to be a real "factory".

After the production of the first bags, we encountered some selling problems. We needed to find a way to advertise our product. I began to think about how we could market our bags on different networking websites. To accomplish this, we first created a 'Panda in Love' profile on Facebook and added every person that we knew. I also proposed to print advertisements and paste them on school bulletin boards, at bus stops, etc. The results showed that my marketing strategy really worked! Many people left us messages on the website asking about the price of the bag as they were interested in buying them. Little by little, "Panda in love" became known throughout the whole school as well as the teenagers in my neighborhood. By way of the bag's popularity, we were able to earn money by our creation. More importantly, we learned many skills associated with small business and overcoming obstacles.

Today, I am really proud of this experience. I am eager to say that through this project I reached a real independency for the first time in my life. I learned many indispensable lessons of life from carrying out this project, for example problem-solving, responsibility, endeavor, and artistic expression. I have since then take advantage of integrating these lessons into my life to become the person who I am today."Panda in love" also allowed me to feel my first trill of success and to have the opportunity to be a business leader , an area that I am most interested in, because i am sure about one day in the future I will be a leading business woman who not just worth to my neighbourhood but also to this world .

Undergraduate / "Chinese values and the Chilean community" - world you come from [5]

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Prompt:
Describe the world you come from - for example, your family, community or school - and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

The worlds that I come from are totally different between them. To me, I have two worlds: one world is my family that taught me some important Chinese values, and the other one is the Chilean community which I live in. Thanks to my both worlds, I relentlessly believes that "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul" .

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I live within two totally different and separate worlds. The first is my life with my family and the second is my reality outside of the house living a foreign country. My life as part of the family has taught me important Chinese value and culture. Life within the Chilean community in which I live has taught me to be courageous in front of a hard situation. Thanks to both of these realities, I am who I am today.

I lived in China until the age of ten. Throughout my childhood in China, my family taught me never to give up, but it took me time to fully understand the meaning of perseverance. Growing up, my father was a clear example of this value. While he was working for a European company, he got the chance to travel throughout Europe. On one occasion he had the opportunity to visit his boss's home in France. The house was in the outskirts of a big city, yet still had features of the countryside. My father's boss planted roses in his country home during his spare time. After this visit, my father became fascinated with such style of life and dreamed he would one day live in a similar place. As a result of this, my family later immigrated to Chile and now my home is full of roses just as my father had dreamed years before. This event strengthened my belief that if I work hard, I will be able to persevere and accomplish my dreams.

My life in Chile has really shown that courage is one of the most crucial attributes that one can have in life. For me, Chile was a new and strange world. Everybody spoke Spanish, a language I did not know at all. Though a difficult situation, I knew that if I did not interact with other people, then I would not have any friends and my life would be miserable. So I decided to take my first big step- to attempt to speak the language. At the beginning I found it really difficult. Sometimes I had to use hand gestures and my classmates did not understand me, however I never gave up. When I failed to pronounce some words, I maintained my courage and tried again and again until I could finally say them well. Three months after my arrival, I was able to communicate with people and started to make new friends. Taking the initiative to learn Spanish really opened a new door in my life. I began to learn about the Chilean culture and lifestyle. I gained a strong self-confidence and conviction that the world is nothing to be scared of if one has the courage and the perseverance to face it.

The values that my two worlds gave me were courage and the will to persevere. These same values helped me to learn English when I was in eleventh grade. I want to educate myself and be a person that will be useful to this world. I think the perfect place to provide me what I need is the USA- the country with the best higher education in the world. An education in the United States is the missing ingredient that I need to become a 'master of my fate' and a 'captain of my soul'.