Unfortunately, I realized as many people do that teaching may not provide the most options for me in the future. So, I majored in business in college as a foundation for what might come, and eventually found myself intrigued with the law. I went to law school as most of you know, and graduated almost 2 years ago now (I really cannot believe it have been that long). Though I loved majoring in business and am one of the proud few who can say I actually enjoyed law school, teaching still had a grip on my heart. In college I did tutoring and in law school I was a teaching assistant for legal writing, in an attempt to satisfy the desire to teach.
As I was in the process for looking for a legal job, there were many things that kept leading me back to academia. And ultimately I ended up working for a law school (which is where I currently am), doing admissions and marketing. I love what I get to do for the school (which is basically tell people why law school is so amazing, which despite the criticisms it is, and even knowing what I know now, I would never trade in my law school experience).
So this Spring semester our students will be taking Contracts and Legal Writing. As it happens, we found ourselves in need of a Legal Writing professor at kind of the last minute and I was offered the opportunity. I was pretty much ecstatic! Ever since I took Legal Writing in law school I knew I wanted to teach it.
So, this past Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 6pm, I taught my first legal writing class and officially became a law school professor. It is kind of funny how life works ... I fought being a teacher, and ultimately that is exactly where I ended up ... and I couldn't be happier!
It takes gumption to teach!
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