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JenniferDayritSecondEssay 5 - 19 Jun 2018 - Main.JenniferDayrit
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Let's Go | | To ensure that I will be able to have an independent practice I know I need to look to mentors who have done this before. A significant portion of my next two years will be devoted to finding mentors who can instruct me on how they started their own independent practices. Knowing my own comfort levels, I think I would prefer to work on a small team before I move out on my own. Therefore, it will be important to connect with peers and reach out to practitioners who share my interests.
I want to work on data privacy and surveillance issues. | |
< < | It concerns me that the people who are responsible for making laws about these issues understand so little about them. It also concerns me how little society cares. Next year, I intend to find courses to take at Columbia (outside the law school) so that I can begin to be someone who knows the law and knows technology. As someone who does care, I will also be working on becoming someone who actually “walks the walk” so to speak. I know it does not make sense to be disapproving of other people’s social input into their technologies when I have also allowed convenience to justify my own economic and personal input. I hope to slowly, but surely, break from my dependence on personal data input. By focusing on these specific goals, I hope to become more knowledgeable and effective in my future practice.
Very good start. You know that there are many students who
experience this trajectory during the first year; you have animated
from within one person's thoughts and feelings, but you have
captured that of others in the process. This is how more than one
life is changed at a time.
You have real plans. They could be more detailed, and they will be.
But they embrace the essential of all strategy: they define
objectives rather than assuming them. As you show in your
reflections on the arc of growing up within your family, living life
to achieve the objectives we actually have—not the ones we
think we always have had—can require boldness and a
willingness to accept displacement, with its accompanying loss of
supposed certainty. So these plans too may change. But what is
important is carrying them as far as you can.
Your last paragraph need some work. It reflects our conversations,
and your subsequent serious thinking, all of which is good. But one
had to be there to understand, because you let a couple of sentences
represent the general drift of your thinking rather than clearly
explaining it. You can improve on that with the same clarity and
candor you bring to the rest of the draft.
| > > | Because of negative experiences with social media when it first became popular, I have tried to be mindful of my interactions with it. I also try to observe the way that others interact with technology. My interest grew into a desire to understand how the law interacts with technology, specifically concerning privacy and surveillance. As I started to track current issues, I became concerned that lawmakers rarely understand these issues and society only fleetingly cares. As someone who is passionate about this, I first want to work on actually “walking the walk” so to speak. I have allowed convenience to justify my own economic and personal input into devices. I want to break from my dependence on personal data input and learn about other options that do not sacrifice privacy. Second, I intend to learn as much as I can so that I can make a real impact. I intend to find courses and knowledgeable professors (outside the law school) so that I can begin to be someone who knows the law and knows technology. I will seek guidance from the attorneys at my internship who know the area so that I can work on a strategy for continuing growth. By focusing on these goals, I hope to become more knowledgeable and effective in my future practice. | |
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