College Law Program Research

        After we graduate, we will be tossed into the college circuit. With the Honors Mentorship Program on my resume, colleges will view me as someone who is ready to get involved in their job and already has experience in my field of study. I am lucky enough to be interested in a subject that the best colleges in the southeast offer. These are the schools that caught my eye (formatted to the weekly assignment posted on 9/22).

1.         The University of Georgia

                Athens, Georgia

                http://www.uga.edu

Florida State University

    Tallahassee, Florida

     https://www.fsu.edu

The University of Alabama

    Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    http://www.ua.edu

2. Business/Law, General Studies

3. The universities that caught my eye were the ones listed under step 1, but others include Clemson, Auburn, Ole Miss, and The University of Tennessee.

4. To get into law you must pass the LSAT exam.

5. -Must look at SAT/ACT scores

-Type of School: Public, Large, 4 Year, and Coed

-Location: South, Georgia

-Campus & Housing; Residential campus, freshmen can drive
-Activities: Must have a Marching Band

-Academic Credit: Must take Advance Placement credit

6. UGA Law School (my ideal law school): Ranked 29^th of 204 of American Bar Association approved law schools.

7. -HOPE Scholarship

    - Zell-Miller Scholarship

    -David (DJ) Wright Davenport Scholarship

    - Tommy Aaron/Charlie Aaron Foundation Scholarship

Weekly Assignment 3

In Tim Elmore’s post on his blog Growing Leaders, http://growingleaders.com/, he gives an interesting perspective on how we interns view our internship. He refers to an internship as a “12 week interview.” I had never thought of it that way, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. An internship isn’t so much an interview for the one particular office you work at, but an interview into the world of the job of your interest. Though the class is called “Honors Mentorship,” its really, as Elmore says, “a simulation of the job you’ll have one day.” I have been given specific tasks at the law office i am working at, so it feels like I am really a working lawyer (except for the whole defending someone in court part of course). Elmore also gives us these 4 “ingredients” as he calls them, to help us be successful interns:
1. Teachability
2. Initiative
3. Responsibility
4. Energy
If we take these points, which I have taken to calling TIRE, we can guarantee a successful “mini-career” at our places of mentorship.