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we better have a good explanation for all the fun we've had
My mother had to refill her drink when I announced my law school decision but was soon very supportive. Probably because she's always thought I should go to law school and simply couldn't believe I was finally following advice. And N, darling, what else would I do with a law degree if not practice law? I'm not saying I'll do corporate law or run for office or anything like that, but I do believe that there is a great deal I could do with a law degree that would suit me quite well.
Nor can I deny the appeal of having a specific goal, a plan for the future, a plan that will result in a measure of financial security, either.
It's not learning law that appeals to me so much as what I can do with it. I see law school as a necessary evil. The bottom line is, I'm not going to be happy unless I continue my education, and grad school and law school are my only real options. While grad school seems the more obvious choice, I have never felt that a Master's degree in English would qualify me for anything more than teaching, and I do not want to teach. I think law school would give me many more options. I love literature and poetry, but I have known for a long time now that it is not what I want to DO.
I can't explain it any better than that. The decision just has a rightness to it that may not make it understandable but that makes me confident that it's what I'm meant to do.
(E, can I borrow your LSATs book?)
I'm ready to go back to school. Another week at home won't be a hardship, but I wonder why I didn't plan to go back this weekend - just as well with this blizzard currently raging, but it doesn't make me any less antsy. I still love having nothing to do. And it isn't that I do nothing; I watch television and knit, I read, I talk to my mother, I visit my friends, I practice calligraphy, I play my guitar (oh yes, bought a guitar) I inventory my book collection slowly but surely and it's all well and good.
But I'm ready to go back, to go home, for the little time I have left to call it that.
Nor can I deny the appeal of having a specific goal, a plan for the future, a plan that will result in a measure of financial security, either.
It's not learning law that appeals to me so much as what I can do with it. I see law school as a necessary evil. The bottom line is, I'm not going to be happy unless I continue my education, and grad school and law school are my only real options. While grad school seems the more obvious choice, I have never felt that a Master's degree in English would qualify me for anything more than teaching, and I do not want to teach. I think law school would give me many more options. I love literature and poetry, but I have known for a long time now that it is not what I want to DO.
I can't explain it any better than that. The decision just has a rightness to it that may not make it understandable but that makes me confident that it's what I'm meant to do.
(E, can I borrow your LSATs book?)
I'm ready to go back to school. Another week at home won't be a hardship, but I wonder why I didn't plan to go back this weekend - just as well with this blizzard currently raging, but it doesn't make me any less antsy. I still love having nothing to do. And it isn't that I do nothing; I watch television and knit, I read, I talk to my mother, I visit my friends, I practice calligraphy, I play my guitar (oh yes, bought a guitar) I inventory my book collection slowly but surely and it's all well and good.
But I'm ready to go back, to go home, for the little time I have left to call it that.