In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I'd make it to the Supreme Court. That didn't work out the way I planned.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
Since I was a young girl, I always wanted to pursue law studies. I would have never imagined that my career would have taken a complete different route.
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
I worked my way through law school.
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
I was actually going to law school in 1972.
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.