Law School Perseverance
When I tell someone I want to go to law school the first thing they always want to talk about is how difficult it will be. When I talk to an admissions officer or a councillor the first thing that comes up is the rigor of the course work. There is obviously no denying that law school is one of the most challenging endeavors a person can undertake, one that requires an abundance of intelligence, creativity, and passion, but what’s more important than all of those is perseverance. You can be the most intelligent or creative or passionate student to ever come through a law school but if you don’t have perseverance, the second it gets difficult you will fail. Perseverance is something that my parents taught me from the day I was born and in today’s age of instant gratification there is a premium on someone who can
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Being pulled cross country, having to leave behind friends and family, and even pets, I learned what it meant to take hardship and turn it into important life skills. Living in new cities every few years, I learned how to adapt to different cultures and people and not just interact but to create relationships. I learned to turn my anger and frustration, at leaving yet another place I called home, to determination to make my next home better than the last. When I came to college and found myself with a 1.7 GPA, lost and behind, I didn’t give up but rather focused my energy to improving myself and building my GPA back up to a 3.0 going into my senior year. My perseverance is my greatest asset in life and what will make me a great asset to this University. I think Will Smith said it best when he said “You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things . . . But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. . .
Being pulled cross country, having to leave behind friends and family, and even pets, I learned what it meant to take hardship and turn it into important life skills. Living in new cities every few years, I learned how to adapt to different cultures and people and not just interact but to create relationships. I learned to turn my anger and frustration, at leaving yet another place I called home, to determination to make my next home better than the last. When I came to college and found myself with a 1.7 GPA, lost and behind, I didn’t give up but rather focused my energy to improving myself and building my GPA back up to a 3.0 going into my senior year. My perseverance is my greatest asset in life and what will make me a great asset to this University. I think Will Smith said it best when he said “You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things . . . But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. . .