Essay One: Answer both Part A and Part B
Part A - What is your short-term goal following graduation from the Georgetown McDonough MBA Program? What skills are you seeking to develop or improve upon in order to reach your goals? (500 words or fewer)
Part B – What is your long-term career goal? (100 words or fewer)

Essay 1 - Part A

I was like a sinking ship, with no chance to develop the ocean. Four years ago, I started a clothing trading company named DREAMIX with a close friend who majored in art design. He had a dream of becoming fashion designer and I majored in international business with hopes of establishing an international trading company. The name of the company, DREAMIX, symbolized a mixture of our ambitions and dreams for the success of a company that we spent many hours in university planning.

Our plan of action was simple; we researched laws required to build a company in Taiwan, talked to several professors, and asked entrepreneurs who had worked in similar areas for advice. Both my partner and I had successful careers in the army and felt fully capable and confident that our success could be achieved through DREAMIX. We were enthusiastic about building our own brand, “Welcome A Board”, as I had been a sponsored skateboarder and had been successful in helping to lead our college skateboarding team.

Soon after discussing our plans of making clothes with a friend, we realized we didn’t have the budget to launch a successful marketing strategy and still concentrate on operations. So we quickly decided to start importing famous clothing brands such as EDHARDY, JUNKFOOD and TRUE RELIGION. I fought hard to persuade our vendor to give us a huge discount with the agreement that they would be able to ship us a random sampling of the aforementioned brands. Unfortunately, just after we received the products, a famous department store