The Long and Winding Road
While reading winding road in urban area, one of the blawgs I’ve come across and started reading lately, Jaye Ramsey Sutter writes about her impending graduation from law school, and inspired me while she was at it.
This summer, I have an internship with a prominate civil rights/public interest law firm of national notoriety and a two hour history type course on western legal tradition.
I won’t officially receive my diploma on completion of 90 hours of law school and my degree until July, but I get to “walk” at this May 22, 2004 graduation. Twenty years after I graduated from undergrad, sixteen years after graduation from graduate school, twenty-four years since I graduated from high school. I will be 42 years old in May.
I’m 35 years old, partnered, a father, and preparing to apply to law school because of an old desire recently awakened. It’s been about 12 years since I graduated from undergrad. At times I think that maybe it’s “too late” and that I’ve “lost too much time” struggling with various issues. And then I read Jaye’s post before I head out to work this morning. And as a result I’m walking out the door with a little less doubt, thinking to myself “I can do this.”
April 29th, 2004 at 11:12 am
Hey t –
just an fyi: you have two Veggie potluck links in your blogroll ;). also, the overeasy link doesn’t work. peace.
April 29th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
I believe you can do it, too. Go for it. Do this for yourself and all those people who need you, especially the ones you haven’t met yet. Just think what you will bring to law school for other students in your classes!
You rock.
April 30th, 2004 at 1:03 am
I wished you luck over at Jaye’s place. I thought it important enough to come here and say the same thing. Go, be, do.