I will try to make this short! My freshman and sophomore years in college were dedicated to pre-med, simply because my family and environment encouraged it, and I love to help people. I went through the motions--completing a healthy majority of all the science classes required for pre-med until I took organic chemistry and failed. I have never failed a class in my life, but I was very stressed out and realized I just was not happy at all and burdened. I seldom thought about the med schools I wanted to go to, I realized (as corny as this sounds), I was alive but not really living my life the way I wanted to. I then reevaluated my passions, some of my family and friends always said that I would make a good lawyer because of my personality, of course there is so much more to law than solely personality but natural abilities definitely won't hurt. I really enjoy helping people, speaking about social injustices, exploring laws and how to protect people and organizations etc. I just feel like law is a good fit for me, I also studied psychology so I initially wanted my JD/PhD but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. I'm sorry this is so long! But I guess my main question is where do I start? I bought my first LSAT prep book, (princeton review practice tests), but other than that I have no idea what to do. Pre-med is a bit more friendly to me because a. it's all I know and b. it's easy to shadow a doctor or volunteer at a hospital but I don't exactly know how to shadow a lawyer or if that is possible. Any suggestions for someone new like me? thank you
