Pursuing A College's Mock Trial Team

if there is one thing college has taught me, it is that it does not matter what you think you are going to become, or how far back you start from, but it is that determination in the place of those disadvantages is what makes all the difference. I did not choose to be a lawyer because anyone in my family was, in fact, no one in my family worked anything close to it. My mother has worked as a waitress, a seamstress in a factory, and finally as a baker since arriving in this country. I took it upon myself to try and become something more, something that my mother did not have the opportunity to be. As the oldest child in a house of three I fulfilled the function of the interpreter in the family, which gave me the sense of responsibility and maturity that came with that role. Growing up with those …show more content…
I made the decision in high school to become a lawyer, but experiences in college motivated the decision to want to become a prosecutor. Though I did not know much, what I did know was that my sense of right and wrong that infuriated my relatives whenever I called them out for speeding or saying something without having any evidence to back it up, were clear indicators of where I was going to end up. During my time on the College 's Mock Trial Team, I realized exactly what type of lawyer I wanted to be. I joined my school 's Mock Trial Team having absolutely no experience with what mock trial was and only had my confidence with public speaking as a primary skill to rely on. It was not until my first trial that I realized how much I loved the courtroom and while some people could not stand the upwards of three hour trials, I could not have been more enthralled. The first opportunity I received to perform as an attorney I did it with almost no preparation, with a group of witnesses that I had just met. It equated to jumping in the deep end considering