Yes, actually. FIU did you say? Full scholarship? I suppose I should start practicing the LSAT. :)
A couple years ago when I was really down in the dumps and just desperate to hear something about a change in school or career, I had a dream about going to law school. I woke up with tears in my eyes and told my parents that God had spoken to me.
After my plan to change schools did not pan out, and after I graduated with my Engineering degree, I got stopped cold. I mean how in the world do you just wake up and say that God told you something? It's ridiculous! It's also scary, the presumptuousness of it. I went into full retreat on that, deciding that my desperation had manufactured a message out of nothing. Besides, we already have 1 lawyer in the family, an alum of both Columbia and NYU school of law. I have no wish to follow in her footsteps of working 80-hour weeks.
With that pushed aside, I've been looking and looking for the right path, trying to see what career might be a good fit. What should I do next? I'm totally lost. I've tried on the idea of Education, Psychology, Sociology, TOEFL, and Computer Science, along w/ every imaginable combination, and I can't figure out how to make any of it work. I don't have either the money or the undergraduate background, and what's worse, in my current location I don't even have access to decent universities which could help me make up the defecit, or even try out any of the grad programs I'm interested in.
So I went back to the drawing board, and came up with Communications (Speech or Interpersonal). And what's the application of that? Well only every person I know who's been a masters student in Comm has been using it as a stepping stone to law school. Right. And then I pick up this book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520223454/qid=1113160382/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2909695-3230253) while browsing the Af. Am. section in B&N, and from the style of the writing and the content, swear this girl is me (she's now practicing international law in Paris).
So... what can I do? All roads seem to lead to Rome here. Once I finish doing my penance here, I might as well go for it. It may not be divine intervention, but all the other doors are closed.
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Date: Apr. 10th, 2005 07:15 pm (UTC)A couple years ago when I was really down in the dumps and just desperate to hear something about a change in school or career, I had a dream about going to law school. I woke up with tears in my eyes and told my parents that God had spoken to me.
After my plan to change schools did not pan out, and after I graduated with my Engineering degree, I got stopped cold. I mean how in the world do you just wake up and say that God told you something? It's ridiculous! It's also scary, the presumptuousness of it. I went into full retreat on that, deciding that my desperation had manufactured a message out of nothing. Besides, we already have 1 lawyer in the family, an alum of both Columbia and NYU school of law. I have no wish to follow in her footsteps of working 80-hour weeks.
With that pushed aside, I've been looking and looking for the right path, trying to see what career might be a good fit. What should I do next? I'm totally lost. I've tried on the idea of Education, Psychology, Sociology, TOEFL, and Computer Science, along w/ every imaginable combination, and I can't figure out how to make any of it work. I don't have either the money or the undergraduate background, and what's worse, in my current location I don't even have access to decent universities which could help me make up the defecit, or even try out any of the grad programs I'm interested in.
So I went back to the drawing board, and came up with Communications (Speech or Interpersonal). And what's the application of that? Well only every person I know who's been a masters student in Comm has been using it as a stepping stone to law school. Right. And then I pick up this book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520223454/qid=1113160382/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2909695-3230253) while browsing the Af. Am. section in B&N, and from the style of the writing and the content, swear this girl is me (she's now practicing international law in Paris).
So... what can I do? All roads seem to lead to Rome here. Once I finish doing my penance here, I might as well go for it. It may not be divine intervention, but all the other doors are closed.