Law School is trying to Kill Me- Intro

Hey Sunflowers,

I hope this blogpost finds each of every one of you well and in good physical and mental health. Although the world is beginning to open up, it is still very much a pandemic. Y’all… law school was trying to kill me. My journey to and through law school is one I don’t talk about much on my blog and it is long over due.

I had no idea I wanted to be a lawyer growing up. I was the kid who depending on who asked me would determine what I wanted to be. Sometimes I wanted to be a singer or actor, and sometimes I wanted to be a physician. As I got older I just wanted to be a professional life liver. AND STILL DO!

When I was a junior at Howard University I was the Vice-Coordinator of the Undergraduate Student Assembly. We were responsible for large scale programming across the campus. In this role we often worked with the university’s general counsel. When working with vendors, artists, venues, etc., all of it had to be approved by the university counsel. Although this was the bane of my existence in my role, because they were the “no” department, I learned that transactional law was a pathway in this life. I naively thought all lawyers practiced in a courtroom because that’s what Clair Huxtable did, thats what Maxine Shaw did and thats what Joan Clayton did. Those were the lawyers I knew. Although I have an aunt who is an attorney, she too works at a courthouse.

On my first day of law school I still didn’t know the term litigator or transactional, I just knew I did not want to be the lawyer that goes to court. Y'all, I didn’t know there was state courts and federal courts. Y’all, I didn’t even know it was a difference between criminal and civil. I went to law school straight vibes. It’s funny because if you are reading that like “Kae, what the hell is that?” Sis, that was me two years ago on my first day at Wayne Law.

I came to law school thinking that I would find my place in law if I just stuck with it. I knew entertainment and media was my passion and I knew I had a life goal of changing the image of black women in the media but I saw my legal career and my life passions as separate. Mostly because people convinced me that your professional life is different than your personal life and that is just not the life I’m trying to live. I NEED to loveeeee what I do because if I don’t I swear I will get up and leave.

This is really just the intro to this series but I wanted to give you guys some background when I really get into all the many reasons law school is trying to KILL me. I want to say lol but y’all I am for real.

I love y’all so deep. Continue to love on yourselves!

forever blooming,

Mikaela Amira