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Describe Your Interest Or Motivation In Pursuing Your Major (300 Word Limit)

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1. Describe your interest or motivation in pursuing your major. (300-word limit)
As someone who had always been prudent, I wanted a major that involved risk, and the out-of-the-box thinking I enjoyed. To me, business was all of the aforementioned. Who would’ve thought selling something like “pet” rocks could make someone a millionaire? Looking to an even more ludacris invention, who would’ve thought that selling a singing plastic fish would go viral. Herein lied what I thought to be the “magic” of business and entrepreneurship – the fact that it wasn’t a prescribed path but one that I could pave for myself.

From a young age I saw how the need for business knowledge was ubiquitous in almost every field. However, this became particularly apparent to me when organizing my debate team summer camp fundraiser. As president of the club, I had made it my mission to make this fundraiser, which was essentially run as a small business, a great success. I learned management tactics and conflict resolution through working with my team. Additionally, I became acquainted with facets of business like …show more content…

What do you anticipate will be your greatest challenge at Cal Poly? (300-word limit)
I believe one of my biggest challenges will be allocating my time efficiently between school-work and extracurricular opportunities. As someone who was pretty focused on purely academic interest throughout high school, I definitely plan on exploring some more recreational hobbies whether it may be intramural sports, music, or various other activities. I look to college as an opportunity to branch out further. In exploring all these activities I hope to find my niche and a group I fit in with. However, this is where the allocation of time becomes crucial as I wouldn’t want it to affect school work. Albeit it is slightly intimidating that the margin for error, compared to in high school, has diminished, I hope to be able to manage the various aspects of college life and yet still find my

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