Part of my plan with this blog is to share my educational journey. However, seeing as I am at the end of my 2nd term, I will start out with giving some recaps of the classes I took during my 1st & 2nd terms.
During my 1st term, one of the courses I was required to take was called Eight Effective Skills of the Legal Studies Student. This was a course that covered material such as how to study effectively, how to find a style of studying to suit you, how to find your style of learning. Things like that. It was sort of boring, but some parts of it were interesting. The hardest part of the course was the final. For our final we had to interview a person in our chosen field, then write up a summary on that interview.
I thought the hardest part would be to find an attorney willing to let me interview him/her. It turned out I was right. I had actually found an attorney, through a family member, who said I could interview him, to just call his office to set up an appointment. However, when I would call his office, his secretary would tell me she had to speak with him before setting the appointment and would have him call me. I ended up calling just about every attorney in my town and explained to them that I was a paralegal studies student and explained the assignment. A few wouldn’t even give me the time to explain the assignment, they would hear “Paralegal Studies Student” and immediately tell me they weren’t looking to employ a new paralegal. I did finally find an attorney that was willing to grant me the interview. At first he was hesitant, but when I mentioned that I got his name from my dad, he said for the daughter of my dad, he was more than willing to do what he could to help.
I must have done something right with the assignment because my final grade for the course was an A!
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