College Essay

"Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school."

-Emerson

The Rollingstones. I don't know when they first debuted, I don't know their songs, and I don't know the singers in the band. However, I do know that I must get a hold of their T-shirts. Before I actually purchased it, I already had outfits coordinated in my mind. But who knew that I would be matching clothes on display windows and actually work as a merchant director at the store I only went to shop at?

People bring paychecks home thinking their bonus is simply going back to work the next day. My bonus is how I get to live every minute of merchandising, it's a necessity. Meeting new people and converse about the same topic adds flavor to my social life. Attending coterie shows at the Jacob Javits Center and Pier 94 makes me want to achieve my dreams more. It pushes me forward with my everyday dream.

I have arrogance in what I do at the store. Whenever I walk into a showroom, sales representatives might belittle me as a merchant director due to my age and lack of experience, but I possess alacrity in choosing the right styles, the right quantities, and which premium jean brands might attract more customers. Decisions are not to be scared of, it is to be made. Folding clothes, cleaning the store, calling every showroom vexes me but the fact how I am always occupied makes me feel like a real business woman. It feels like I am living the epitome of my life. Yet, it is only the beginning.

Through the experience I had during the last summer to the present, I have learned to be more mature, to bargain, to earn respect, and most importantly, realized where I want my life to lead towards. The sleepless nights thinking what I would want to do are terminated.