Preface: I wrote this, the fourth and final installation in the series of essays required for a particular summer job application. I held off on its posting until I received the job; I figured it would have been rather foolish to post an essay expressing my interest in a summer position I didn’t receive. Blessedly, God landed me the Blackstone Fellowship, and I’ll be heading out to Phoenix on June 8 to start it up . . .
For the first few weeks of law school, I stumbled as the learning curve dragged me along. At no previous time in my academic career had I, with such desperation, strained to understand a simple reading assignment. Even the first reading of Milton’s “Lycidas” made more sense than the first case I read for Property and the essay that followed.
far from, but right at, home 