Innovation

Essay #3. At Haas, we value innovation and creativity. How have you demonstrated these qualities in your professional or personal life?



This was the hardest essay among all my mba essays. I am thinking maybe it's because through most of my life, I had hardly been rewarded or benefited from being innovative/creative. My three years at West Lafayette is probably when I was most innovative- I ran my first business of selling lemonade and candy to kids at playground; I started an girl-bunding club ; I did door to door selling of the girl scouts cookies; I had my first and perhaps the only birthday party; I made my first book summary collection. I was action-orientated, energetic and highly motivated sinceI was only ten.



So I wonder if I relax more ( who cares if the idea is not perfect, it's only a summer camp..) , constrain the rebellious child inside me ( How will this idea ever work?), innovation will not be so far away