UPDATE
I don't actually want to abandon this journal tbh, and so I will attempt to maintain it for now.
Life has picked up, and I'm stuck knee deep in law school. I'd like to eventually work in Japan, and that's sort of being my end goal for a while now, but atm they feel like mutually exclusive life paths: I could very conceivably work as a lawyer, but not in Japan, or I could very conceivably work in Japan, but not as a lawyer. I have yet to find a path I could take to combine these things, but obviously the first thing to achieve is competence in law in the first place. I've obtained N2 qualifications in Japanese thanks to several short term exchange programs and summer/winter vacations spent in Tokyo, but that is obviously not enough to practice law in Japan. It's difficult to realize that I'm already 22, so I should get a hurry on mastering the language to a technical degree, before my brain plasticity hardens and I get old, I guess. Heh heh.
Between volunteering, moot court, clerkships and part time jobs, though, I fail to see where I can have the time. Further, my university has a partnership with Oxford/Cambridge, and I would absolute kill to do a masters of legal philosophy there. I mean, I get to see Andrew again that way, right? Pipe dreams aside, the coursework if thankfully getting easier. The structure of Torts, Company law, Jurisprudence makes it much easier to consume than Contracts and International law, both of which were just ridiculous.
I'm smart, I can do this. Maybe.
I've been trying to keep a level head about the possible road blocks up ahead, but for now, I am tentatively optimistic.
Life has picked up, and I'm stuck knee deep in law school. I'd like to eventually work in Japan, and that's sort of being my end goal for a while now, but atm they feel like mutually exclusive life paths: I could very conceivably work as a lawyer, but not in Japan, or I could very conceivably work in Japan, but not as a lawyer. I have yet to find a path I could take to combine these things, but obviously the first thing to achieve is competence in law in the first place. I've obtained N2 qualifications in Japanese thanks to several short term exchange programs and summer/winter vacations spent in Tokyo, but that is obviously not enough to practice law in Japan. It's difficult to realize that I'm already 22, so I should get a hurry on mastering the language to a technical degree, before my brain plasticity hardens and I get old, I guess. Heh heh.
Between volunteering, moot court, clerkships and part time jobs, though, I fail to see where I can have the time. Further, my university has a partnership with Oxford/Cambridge, and I would absolute kill to do a masters of legal philosophy there. I mean, I get to see Andrew again that way, right? Pipe dreams aside, the coursework if thankfully getting easier. The structure of Torts, Company law, Jurisprudence makes it much easier to consume than Contracts and International law, both of which were just ridiculous.
I'm smart, I can do this. Maybe.
I've been trying to keep a level head about the possible road blocks up ahead, but for now, I am tentatively optimistic.