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EthanSingerSecondEssay 3 - 14 Apr 2021 - Main.EthanSinger
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| | | Since starting law school, doubts about being a public defender have become more prominent in my thinking. Will the pay be enough for me? What role did my mother being a public defender play in me wanting to be a public defender, and what does that mean? When I imagine myself defending people, does that include defending people that have committed acts such as rape? To what extent would I actually be changing people’s lives for the better? | |
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< | My answers to these questions waver depending on who is answering (at times I have told people I no longer want to become a public defender, and at times I have told people I still do), and the only certainty I now have about wanting to be a public defender is that I am now conflicted. While I hope my experiences this summer at a public defender’s office will help me with this ambivalence, part of me feels that it will be more helpful in providing experiences to help with imagining my future practice. This is because part of me realizes that my uncertainty is not just about whether I want to be a public defender, but about what it means if I decide I do not want to do the thing that inspired me to come to law school. | >
> | My answers to these questions waver depending on who is answering (at times I have told people I no longer want to become a public defender, and at times I have told people I still do), and the only certainty I now have about wanting to be a public defender is that I am now conflicted. While I hope my experiences this summer at a public defender’s office will help me with this ambivalence, part of me feels that it will be more helpful in providing experiences to help with imagining my future practice. This is because part of me realizes that my uncertainty is not only about whether I want to be a public defender, but about what it means if I decide I do not want to do the thing that inspired me to come to law school. | | |
Imagining Returning to Law School | | | The simple answer is that overall, I am enjoying law school. I enjoy being challenged like never before, I enjoy the people I am around (even though it is mostly virtual), I am learning and growing, and in the end, I will have a degree that will at the very least lend some credibility to wherever it is my imagination ends up taking me. | |
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< | Most importantly though, while I am not certain that I want to be a public defender, I still want to do the thing that inspired me to come to law school: I still want to help change people’s life for the better. While that may not be in the form a public defender, it does not mean I should not return to law school, but just that I should remember the importance of imagining. | >
> | Most importantly though, while I am not certain that I want to be a public defender, I still want to do the thing that inspired me to come to law school: I still want to help change people’s life for the better. While that may not be in the form a public defender, it does not mean I should not return to law school, but that I should remember the importance of imagining. | | | |
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