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MBA INSIDER: SAMPLE APPLICATION ESSAYS Boston University: Essay 1 QUESTION: Describe how your personal distinctiveness will contribute to a stronger learning environment at Boston University and will serve to further your success as a manager.
When I am asked to define myself I smile and explain that I am a "financial translator". Professionally, I translate financial needs and transform these requisites into effective solutions with the aid of technology. In fact, everyone tells me I am quite a rare species because I am able to combine the best out of economic and business knowledge with experience in information systems creation, design and implementation. My whole array of intangible tools helps me everyday to redefine business processes and interact with a wide spectrum of individuals. Naturally, I have become the reference person in all the financial departments of my company supporting the decisions made regarding financial systems. As a teenager, I clearly interpreted that it was fundamental to understand the best of both worlds and that this equilibrium was going to be the key to my success as a professional. Indeed, it has been very rewarding since.
My personal attributes are singular. I am definitely a well-rounded person, including personal achievements, a wonderful family and extraordinary life experiences. All of these combined with professional success and self-reliance helps me identify the special things. For example, sharing a cooking session with my wife on a Saturday afternoon before our guests arrive is a perfect balance after nearly killing myself in a tough hockey match. This is special. My mind is also ethically at ease. My core values are respected throughout my activities and feelings towards the rest of the society. There is no use in going forward with some kind of action that can hurt or damage anyone. I tend to look for win-win situations in which every member gets his share. This constant aim has focused my short and long term objectives in every new venture. If there is anyone involved in the project who does not benefit from it, then something has to be revised and corrected. Every participant should have his incentive. In Argentina, youngsters usually live with their parents until they get married at the age of 25 or 30 years old. That was not my case. My struggle for independence was such that at the age of 21 I was already feeling restless at home. It was a perfect occasion for moving together with my fiancée at that time, today my wife. This forced us to become economically independent and to make essential decisions at an early age. However, this was of enormous help in the years to come and forged us both as individuals and as a couple. Today I am completely prepared for facing one of the most important decisions of my life. Because my father's family came from Ohio to Argentina and my mother's directly from Spain, my education had a smooth mixture of Anglo-Saxon rationality with Latin energy. On the one hand this may seem as water and oil mixed together, but on the other hand it magnificently helped me to understand how both cultures coexist and how to use the best out of each one. At work, I absolutely know how to communicate with a local subordinate as with an international business manager. Undoubtedly I have made good use of this skill. Boston University's classroom will assuredly be enhanced with my whole set of working situations and experiences ranging from entrepreneurship in my early days, family small business, consulting activity and current corporate exposure. Moreover, Argentina does not fall back in all my non-formal education and capacity: having been exposed to Argentine reality since a teenager gave me the grip I now need to manage in easy and in difficult times. Also, my compulsory military service showed me how to understand hierarchies. Only now can I realize how much these experiences have added value to my personal and professional life, and in what a manner will they continue to mould me and enrich BU's classroom. There are really no boundaries for my growth and the only limits that I might find are the ones created just by me. I will definitely bring different South American point of views and creative perspectives to the widespread classroom discussions. I hope that my complete development as a person and personal experiences will have effects on other's minds and feelings. Every member of the BU community should benefit from this wonderful contribution. 
BW MALL
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