Quite early it was when I awoke this morning. A necessary event, and much easier to do when there is some external motivation present. I find it to be so much nicer to be able to get into work early, and accomplish a number of tasks before being completely awake.
My progress towards my eventual goal of going to law school has advanced well as of early this week. Aside from ravenously devouring a few tomes covering students' experience ("One L" by Turow, and a few others), introductions to law, and beginning more realistic preparation for the LSAT, I registered for a class at the University of Texas. The class is called "Making Justice, Using Rules (Justice & Model of Legal Rules)" and cost me a fraction of what it would have cost to take any course at my former university.
My plan is to do the following:
a) give myself some exposure to the academic setting once again.
b) examine coursework that is relevent to Law to give myself a chance to confirm my interest, or alternatively, prevent myself from entering into greater debt.
c) boost my slightly lackluster undergraduate GPA.
In regard to a), I worry that my time in the corporate world may have either eroded my higher mental faculties and that I will need some time to recover them. As for b), I think it is a wise move to try out my future field before going headfirst into it. And lastly, in regard to c), I realize now that it might have been better to have attempted less in my undergraduate years. Despite the fact that most students take 66% of the coursework that I took in four years and still graduate, I did not excel, grade-wise, and am afraid this might hold me back from getting into a reasonably decent law school.
Speaking of law school- with an above average LSAT (I am thinking I can hit mid-to-high 160's) and a boosted GPA, I might be able to pull a middle-first-tier school (according to the us news and world report listing. Only time will tell.
Posted by brian at November 28, 2001 04:15 PM