A law school post

Well shit, I got wait-listed at Howard. The thing is, I had pretty much made up my mind that if I got in there I was going to go. Oh well. Here's what I've decided about law school--it is time for me to be honest with myself.

I am not that smart, certainly not smart enough to get in to a great law school, and that is really ok. My strengths aren't being brilliant but just being a hard worker and a nice guy. Because of that, going in to Intellectual Property law, a field I don't think I would enjoy and is probably over my head anyway, doesn't make much sense. The only reason I wanted to be an IP lawyer was because I thought I could make a lot of money, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that I don't really care a lot about being wealthy, either. I just want to make enough to pay back my loans eventually and live my life. So, that said, I'm thinking that public interest law is more my speed (i.e. no engineering background needed to practice it) and style. I want to be a lawyer to help as many people as I can, and because that is my goal, the University of the District of Columbia is probably my best bet at the moment.

So, to recap: Of the 18 schools I applied to, I've been accepted at three (UDC, Vermont and Franklin Pierce), waitlisted at three (Creighton, Howard and Syracuse), rejected at eight (Lewis and Clark, Gonzaga, Seattle, Denver, University of San Francisco, University of New Mexico, Texas Tech and Depaul), with four (Willamette, U of O, Thomas Jefferson and Florida State) still to hear from.