It took a little longer than everyone expected, but I am finally knocking on the door. The door that many of the people that I grew up with walked through several years ago. Finally I will be putting on that cap and gown and taking strides out into the world..... for about two months that is. Law school looms like a cab waiting by the curb to take me to my next adventure after walking through the undergraduate doorway of graduation.

I spent the first year of my college education at Elon University in North Carolina, where I began studying political science. During this time I was playing on the football team and it quickly became apparent that the way I approached these responsibilities left much room for improvement in my studies. I began to let my grades slip as the first month of college turned into the last week of the second semester. When I picked my head up after my first year in college, I had an abysmal GPA and I was no longer on the football team. What was I doing?...

I decided it would be best to change environments, and so I transferred to the University of South Carolina Beaufort, the university that I now intend to graduate from in a few short months. I changed majors to biomedical sciences at USCB and began playing on the baseball team. I quickly fell back into old habits however, and once again found my grades struggling. Struggling so much in fact that I found myself on academic probation. I took that year of probation to ask myself some difficult questions, like what I was passionate about and what I really wanted to do with my life.

I was fortunate enough to find what I believe to be my future career and a passion for the law. What I really found to be something that has changed my view would be examining my past five years. Did I want to look back in five or ten more years and see more of the same? Or did I want to take the steps necessary to look back and be proud of what I have accomplished and where I have gone.

Til next time.