Highschool
I began my journey towards law school and legal education in highschool at Clackamas Middle College where I was able to go to Clackamas Community College starting in my Sophomore year of Highschool in 2017.
Through the community college and the middle college, I was able to achieve my high school diploma and associates degree at the same time in 2020.
University
After Highschool, I went to Portland State University on several scholarships for scholarly achievement.
During University I was a part of the national honors society Phi Theta Kappa.
I chose to major in Political Science with a focus on comparative and international politics.
While I did not minor in it, I did work in philosophy and criminal justice as well to prepare for law school.
University Capstone
To meet my graduation requirements, I did volunteer work as a capstone with an organization called “Reading is Resistance,” which created learning lessons to help parents of different ethnicities and nationalities to read to their children of books that represented them.
Law School
Admission
I was first admitted into Willamette University at the age of 19 before I graduated Portland State University. I had spent days and nights to prepare for the Law School Admission Test, and was ecstatic to have learned of my success.
Time in Law School
My first year of law school was extremely difficult, but more than anything taught me to perservere and understand that I am not in Kansas anymore. It was immediately more difficult than undergraduate and the standards were higher than I have ever faced before. Civil Procedure, Torts, Lawyering, Contracts. These four classes dominated my life and showed the new jungle I was working in. Afterwards in my first year I felt more comfortable with the work I was doing and was working harder than ever.
My second year of law school was even harder. The expectations were set, and now they had to be applied rigorously. I had chosen to take Real Estate Transactions, Evidence, and Secured Transactions at the same time. A mistake that I will never mistake again. But it most definitely made me more confident in my work in learning new and daunting concepts of the law.
In my third year, we will see as time prevails.