Totally Awesome Women: On the Eve of My Impending Doom

As I sit here on the eve of my LSAT, I can’t help but reflect on all the women who have inspired me during my lifetime.  Maybe it’s because I can’t sleep with such an important even looming over me.  Or, maybe it’s because these women have helped me get where I am right now and I can’t help but to appreciate them before my impending doom (kidding on that last part).

I think it’s a little of both, but to keep things (slightly?) more interesting, I think I’ll focus on the latter.

 

 

When I say these women have helped me get where I am, I know that’s an incredibly vague thing to say.  But, I actually meant it to be vague, or at least all encompassing.  I could say that these TAWs and other inspiring ladies have physically helped me to be where I am today.  In that sense, I might not be able to even take the LSAT, much less pass the bar and become a practicing (and baller status) attorney.  I could also say that these women have helped me because their successes in a variety of fields have helped me believe that I can both follow in their footsteps and pave my own way through life.

And finally, I could say that it’s because of these totally awesome women (and men) that I can appreciate the job that has been done and still needs to be done for global rights.  This is why I am applying to law school.

 

 

For me, a law degree means so many things.  For one thing, it means I’ve “made it.”  I don’t mean in the sense that a law degree encapsulates my full identity or that I am meaningless without it.  But rather, that I have made it to a milestone that, for a time, I really thought was impossible for me.

Secondly, a law degree is important to me because it gives me tools I can use to make a lasting impression on legal equality.  I fully recognize that being a lawyer isn’t the only way to help others.  But (for me), law is the perfect place to commit to equality.  The law is something we prize.  It is something we tend to put above everything else because without the law (and people following it), what do we have?

This question raises (about a million?) other questions regarding “human nature,” anarchy, etc., (none of which I really want to “go there” before 8 am).  But, my point is, that we instill our values in the law.  I want to make it my job to see that equality is always a part of law.

Now, before I go on too much of a nerd rant (if I haven’t already), I want to make it clear that I’m not try to make my career (and my life) abstract into some highfalutin or pompous homage to feminism (sorry if it came out that way…it’s early).  But, I do think it’s important (from time to time) to recognize and appreciate the impact feminism has on our lives, in direct or indirect ways.  So, tomorrow (at an even earlier hour), I will march up to LSAT, look it straight in the eye and say, “I can do this, too.”