....this is a point that OP should address. You said "obtaining a JD appears to be a big (if not the biggest) step to overcoming self-made obstacles like mine", is this your main reason for choosing to become a lawyer? If so, you are going to be really disappointed. Going to law school and getting a JD is not going to make you a more mature, well adjusted person. You clearly don't think much of the legal system, repeatedly violating the protective order on your girlfriend and the no-contact order with your high school, admittidely with the justification "that what I was doing was not wrong, regardless of its unlawful nature". That whacked out rationale was applied just within the past few weeks and months.Ron Mexico wrote:Why do you want to become a lawyer exactly?
I think you should really reassess why exactly you are going to law school. You are currently sitting and reflecting on this litany of mistakes you've made and it somehow occurred to you that going to law school will make everything all better again. I dealt with my own character/legal issues, but this was primarily in high school. I have spent the past few years working really hard on myself and have been able to change myself for the better, becoming a much more mature and useful member of society. I didn't do these things in order to stay out of trouble and get into law school, those things were just happy results of changing who I was. I am so much happier now than I was a few years ago and am able to derive so much more pleasure and satisfaction out of life. You should not be worrying about how to get into law school right now, you should be worrying about getting your life together. Magically getting into law school and getting your JD won't accomplish that, and quite frankly it would probably do the opposite. If you aren't forced to check yourself and adjust your personality/character now, you probably wouldn't be inclined to after 3 years of law school, which would inevitably lead you to committing some type of ethical violation in ~5 years and being disbarred, still under a mountain of debt, and even more reticent about the 'mistakes' you've made and crowing about how all there is to do now is 'look forward'. Look backward, embrace the mistakes you've made and analyze why you kept making them and what you can do to change yourself so they don't happen again. These 'mistakes' didn't coincidentally start piling up because of some bad luck...
TL; DR 0L here with some level of expertise when it comes to being a juvenile delinquent
