I want to meet a leader worth following* and dedicate my life to helping that person succeed. Thats weird because Americans glorify the leader, and think little of the right hand man. Nevertheless, that’s who I am, and I am awesome at it. The key is finding the right leader - being at the right place, at the right time, with the right skill set to identify such a person and be worth their attention. I'm here because the roads open to me with this education have a higher chance of crossing the path of that great leader I'm searching for than the roads I’d likely travel without it. But of course, that's just a guess.

*This could be in business, politics, public interest, whatever - those who better the world come from all sorts of industries and organizations.

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-- MakalikaNaholowaa - 17 Jan 2008
On my law school application, I talked about my desire to be empowered. I believe that a strong general understanding of our legal system, the training to do individual research about specific law and the ability to apply it, and the license to use these skills to help myself and others is incredibly empowering, and that's why I am here. This is a very general reason and I wish I could be more specific, but it's unfortunately as far as I've gotton yet.

I appreciate the wonderful opportunity afforded to me just by being here and having the option to mold a career in the law, options not available to women and people of color in past times. Accordingly, I don't want to squander this gift of empowerment by forfeiting my chance to be an innovative, creative, world changer in deference to being a cookie-cutter packaged product to firms. I'm excited about taking this class, because I hope it will help me to avoid this path of least resistance fate (or at least, if I ultimately chose it for whatever reason, that I do so disenchanted, with eyes wide open) and illuminate alternate paths.

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