Personal Narrative: Ross Business School

Last year, my US History teacher told me something interesting about our society that plopped me at the beginning of the path that led me to choosing to apply to Ross Business School. My teacher told my class that during the cold war, in all the movies and TV shows, the villain in the movie was always a Russian. He had a thick accent, a fur coat, and missiles ready to send at the push of a button. When the cold war ended and the Vietnam War began, the Vietnamese were portrayed as the enemies in pop culture, and after 9/11, the villains were always terrorists. But now, after numerous scandals like the BP oil spill and Wall Street antics, the villains in movies and TV shows tend to be evil, white businessmen. I realized that he was right, and that the bad guy in most of the movies that I saw was a greedy, power hungry suit who didn’t care about anybody or anything but himself and his profits. He missed all family events and holidays, and he cut down rainforests to expand his production. This was so often portrayed

Every University of Michigan college tour that I went on (and there have been many, University of Michigan is very popular in my family) and every time I was at Ann Arbor, I marveled at Ross’s beautiful building and dreamt of being a student there. Ross would support me and my interests as a student because I believe that Ross doesn’t make evil CEO’s like I had seen in the movies; Ross makes leaders in the business world. Leaders who create or manage businesses that help the community, help the people in their company, and help create innovations that shape our society. I am interested in continuing this tradition, and becoming a leader in the business world who instigates change and is “boundaryless" in their innovation. I believe that there is not better place to do this than at the Ross Business School at the incredible University of