please dissect this PS
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:20 pm
--please let me know any thoughts or ideas you have about the paper. I previously wrote a much more personal PS, but was told it did not sound profesional. I know this one is a little stiff and formulaic. Hit me with any ideas or criticism you can come up with.
Thanks!!
It has been said that one’s truest direction in life is dictated by one’s truest intentions. Such is my passion for law. Throughout my life I have been drawn to various fields and disciplines. However, in the final analysis, a legal career provides a realm of comfort and appropriateness that is most aligned with my inherent skills and abilities. Specifically, my interest in law is derived from my personal interests, experiences, and natural inclinations.
At a personal level, I first became interested in law as a child. I remember always enjoying the underlying limitations of rules, then attempting to uncover their meanings and repercussions. In particular, I was fascinated in the way that the rules around us often shape behavior and lead us to adapt our everyday lives. Once in high school, I would often sit in my father’s company meetings where I would see the integral role that lawyers played in all of his business agreements. This experience ultimately planted the seed of inspiration toward a career in law. As an adult, I now better appreciate the law’s complexities and the level of uniqueness presented by each debated case. I also enjoy determining the relationship between individual legal cases and their precedents as established by prior cases. The law is an inexorable march toward refinement and progress and I am drawn to this ever-advancing evolution of how society determines and evaluates rules and punishments. Jurisdiction requires a true motivation for helping others through the sources of potential distress, and I have found this endeavor to be a central factor behind my decision to study law.
My interest in law has also been fueled by various law-related experiences. In school, I researched Oregon trout streams for a particular cartography class. Throughout the project, I observed and carefully studied the evolvement of laws put in place to protect both the streams and the fish themselves. This experience gave me first-hand insight into the interplay of established law with current day issues and conflicts. Putting law in a real-world context has helped broaden my perspective of legal practice. Moreover, I have experience in community service assisting underprivileged children. This was a particularly gratifying experience as it allowed me to help represent those who would otherwise not have their own advocates. These children represented the unprotected, and my work with them helped foster a sense of personal responsibility and duty that I carry with me to this day. Additionally, I garnered invaluable insight into law by observing the work lawyers performed for my father’s business. The observation of their work, including documents and drafts they prepared, gave me an ideal opportunity to see the day-to-day work of lawyers and to begin to understand the application of the law to enterprise and organizations. This transformation from interpretation to implementation has been a central tenet of my motivation toward studying law.
I also maintain the inherent skills and abilities that make for a strong law school candidate and practicing lawyer. I hold excellent interpersonal and communication skills, which allow me to confidently and persuasively present my opinions and stances to others, while ensuring clear and thorough communication. Additionally, I am diligent and hard working. I have always enjoyed accepting various challenges and seeing them through their entirety, while paying proper attention to all details in order to affect outcomes that were deliberate and well considered. I have also demonstrated a tested sense of integrity and trustworthiness. I look to ensure that each endeavor I undertake is assumed with a truest commitment toward a rational and beneficial outcome. This has helped develop my team building and leadership skills while advancing my own problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
Studying law requires diligence, intelligence, and stamina. As an avid outdoorsman and fly fisher, I have intimately witnessed the systematic destruction of local streams and the decimation of various wildlife species as a result of ongoing coal mining and urban development. Through my legal education, I hope to help protect the environment from such devastating impacts. Similar to the environment itself, the law has many different interpretations as they apply to protecting our natural surroundings. As a lawyer, I will help to elucidate applicable laws and to help ensure that local citizens and their environments are rightfully protected. Through my personal interests, experiences, and abilities, I have demonstrated a commitment and desire to grow my skills and develop a broad perspective for legal interpretation and application. These qualities will prove useful as I embark on this most cherished journey of self-growth and earnest commitment in law school. Ultimately, as has been said about one truest direction, I hope to use my diverse personal, academic, and work background to make substantive and enduring contributions as a law student and future attorney.
Thanks!!
It has been said that one’s truest direction in life is dictated by one’s truest intentions. Such is my passion for law. Throughout my life I have been drawn to various fields and disciplines. However, in the final analysis, a legal career provides a realm of comfort and appropriateness that is most aligned with my inherent skills and abilities. Specifically, my interest in law is derived from my personal interests, experiences, and natural inclinations.
At a personal level, I first became interested in law as a child. I remember always enjoying the underlying limitations of rules, then attempting to uncover their meanings and repercussions. In particular, I was fascinated in the way that the rules around us often shape behavior and lead us to adapt our everyday lives. Once in high school, I would often sit in my father’s company meetings where I would see the integral role that lawyers played in all of his business agreements. This experience ultimately planted the seed of inspiration toward a career in law. As an adult, I now better appreciate the law’s complexities and the level of uniqueness presented by each debated case. I also enjoy determining the relationship between individual legal cases and their precedents as established by prior cases. The law is an inexorable march toward refinement and progress and I am drawn to this ever-advancing evolution of how society determines and evaluates rules and punishments. Jurisdiction requires a true motivation for helping others through the sources of potential distress, and I have found this endeavor to be a central factor behind my decision to study law.
My interest in law has also been fueled by various law-related experiences. In school, I researched Oregon trout streams for a particular cartography class. Throughout the project, I observed and carefully studied the evolvement of laws put in place to protect both the streams and the fish themselves. This experience gave me first-hand insight into the interplay of established law with current day issues and conflicts. Putting law in a real-world context has helped broaden my perspective of legal practice. Moreover, I have experience in community service assisting underprivileged children. This was a particularly gratifying experience as it allowed me to help represent those who would otherwise not have their own advocates. These children represented the unprotected, and my work with them helped foster a sense of personal responsibility and duty that I carry with me to this day. Additionally, I garnered invaluable insight into law by observing the work lawyers performed for my father’s business. The observation of their work, including documents and drafts they prepared, gave me an ideal opportunity to see the day-to-day work of lawyers and to begin to understand the application of the law to enterprise and organizations. This transformation from interpretation to implementation has been a central tenet of my motivation toward studying law.
I also maintain the inherent skills and abilities that make for a strong law school candidate and practicing lawyer. I hold excellent interpersonal and communication skills, which allow me to confidently and persuasively present my opinions and stances to others, while ensuring clear and thorough communication. Additionally, I am diligent and hard working. I have always enjoyed accepting various challenges and seeing them through their entirety, while paying proper attention to all details in order to affect outcomes that were deliberate and well considered. I have also demonstrated a tested sense of integrity and trustworthiness. I look to ensure that each endeavor I undertake is assumed with a truest commitment toward a rational and beneficial outcome. This has helped develop my team building and leadership skills while advancing my own problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
Studying law requires diligence, intelligence, and stamina. As an avid outdoorsman and fly fisher, I have intimately witnessed the systematic destruction of local streams and the decimation of various wildlife species as a result of ongoing coal mining and urban development. Through my legal education, I hope to help protect the environment from such devastating impacts. Similar to the environment itself, the law has many different interpretations as they apply to protecting our natural surroundings. As a lawyer, I will help to elucidate applicable laws and to help ensure that local citizens and their environments are rightfully protected. Through my personal interests, experiences, and abilities, I have demonstrated a commitment and desire to grow my skills and develop a broad perspective for legal interpretation and application. These qualities will prove useful as I embark on this most cherished journey of self-growth and earnest commitment in law school. Ultimately, as has been said about one truest direction, I hope to use my diverse personal, academic, and work background to make substantive and enduring contributions as a law student and future attorney.