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Personal Perspective

In order to understand why I need, and more importantly want am MBA, I think that it will be useful to explain where I came from, how I got here, and why I am now making this decision.
I came into this world on one of the most feared days of any calendar – Friday the 13th. I know the mere thought of it provokes horror, yet despite the several hours of agonizing labor combined with being 10 days late, I was coming whether I was ready on not. In fact, my mom couldn't have cared less if it was July 11th, national ‘Get A Free Slurpee at 7-11 Day,' or December 25th. By that point it was Friday the 13th or bust! Although it took longer to get me here than expected, I hit the ground running and had my Mom known how busy I would have been she might have held on for a bit longer.
From the moment that I could walk I was busy looking for adventures. I was always going somewhere even if it meant ‘borrowing' my little brother's training wheels. Which, I incidentally ended up breaking, therefore requiring me to buy him a new set with my birthday money. I learned a big lesson that day but it never deterred me from finding an exciting activity.
I spent the majority of my life participating in sports and because I was just young enough that my mom couldn't leave me at home, I was dragged to my sisters' dancing lessons. It wasn't long after that, with the urging of my Mother, I began dancing. I participated in many activities including; basketball, football, baseball, clogging, and even ballroom dancing. I even tried track and field; however I was unfortunately not tall enough to clear the hurdles and ended up in the hospital with two broken arms. This was followed by taking showers with plastic bags over my arms while trying to balance the impossible act of holding the soap. Which I might add is not an easy task. Thus my career as a track star was dramatically cut short.  
Playing sports simultaneously with dancing kept me active, but it was clogging that gave me the most...