LIFE UPDATE!!

Hey everyone! It's been a couple of days or so since I last posted. Honestly, maybe it's been a week but I've been caught up with work and doing other things and haven't had the time to post. To be honest, not much has happened. I've been consistently working at my two jobs. 60 hours a week! My first job is Sunday through Thursday from 8AM to 12PM at Wally World!! Isn't that SOOOO FUNNN?? For those of you who don't know, Wally World is just Walmart :) That smile was exaggerated by the way. As I was saying, I work there first shift and then I have about a 2 hour break and then go work at my security officer gig I got going on. Yeahhhh it's pretty intense stuff ya know... I'm always protecting all these warehouse workers here from.... um I honestly don't know because I just sit at a desk on the computer watching cameras and playing "Slice Master" on Cool Math Games. If you know you know.

That actually wasn't my life update haha but I thought it was still kind of important because hey I want you guys knowing how busy I am. BUT before the big news, I want to give some background.

When I started high school back in 2016, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for my career. Like most 14 or 15 year old's, you're just focused on having fun and doing what kids do. Eventually as time went by, I thought about wanting to be a doctor! I wasn't sure what kind but I wanted to help people in some way. Buttttt then I realized I was kind of sensitive to different medical things. SO then I was like "maybe I can be a pediatrician" which was a great idea in the moment, but then realized I would probably enjoy doing something else. Then came along sophomore year and thought that maybe being a computer engineer would be great because of the money but found out that it required A LOT of math and I HATE math very much. So then came a class I took called Law and Society where we learned the ins and outs of the Bill of Rights and different court cases to prepare us for a mock trial. I was hooked!! I knew from then on what I wanted to be, a lawyer.

Fast forward to college, I came in as a Political Science major and picked up a Criminal Justice minor my second year. At that point I wanted to be a criminal prosecutor for the state. Fast forward some more to my senior year, I took a mock trial class where my final was an actual mock trial. My professor assigned me the defense counsel role for a bribery case. Long story short, I won, but quickly became interested with this side of a criminal trial.

Later in the spring of 2024 I picked up a shadowing experience with an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) at my nearby District Attorney's Office. The experience was absolutely amazing, but learned that if I wanted to be a lawyer in criminal law, I would probably stick with he defense side because I noticed all the nuances into being a prosecutor and I wasn't interested in that.

As ambitious as I was, that spring semester I took the LSAT and applied to law schools. I didn't get any luck. Honestly I knew those results would happen because the score I got on my LSAT was nowhere near impressive. As upset as I was, I knew I'd have to take a gap year to study for the test again and reapply. Fast forward to November, I retook the LSAT and increased my old score by 14 points! I was beyond happy and had much more confidence in applying again.

Well, here I am today now writing this in hopes of still becoming a lawyer. I realized that with my immigrant background, I wanted to be an immigration lawyer because it's fit for me. Being able to help people get their citizenships or fight for them in court to stay in this country. THAT'S how I want to help people.

In regards to the title of this post, my BIG life update is that after a year of worrying and wondering if I will go to law school, I got my first two acceptances!! I applied to a total of 13 schools at the end of November 2024, and received answers back from two schools and they were both acceptances! I remember bawling my eyes out to the first email I got because I finally jumped that hurdle. I knew I had more schools to wait on but I at least knew I was 100% going to some school to pursue my dream. As of right now, I'm waiting to see what my best offer might be from all the schools but I just know now that I don't feel the same way I did when I got all those rejections before. Now I'm on the path I want to be on.

I'll keep you guys updated.