Rejection and Acceptance

So there is this thing called Law Review. It is a journal that just about every law school in the country puts out. Ours is called the William Mitchell Law Review. It is very prestigious to become a staff member on Law Review and even more so to be an editor. Each year the William Mitchell Law Review puts on a write on competition. A couple of days after finals they give you a packet of a bunch of information and you have three weeks to write a 16 page case note and complete an editing exam. This year 46 students were chosen to be staff members from the write on competition, and 4 were chosen because they have good grades.

My long term career goal is to be a Federal Judge. The first step to this career is to clerk for a Federal Judge when I graduate from law school. The only thing is, to do this you have to have awesome grades and be on Law Review. So of course I chose to put myself through three weeks or writing craziness to try and get on law review. It was long, and it was grueling, but in my head it was worth the chance to be on a journal.

So you can imagine my disappointment when three weeks later I got the "sorry you weren't chosen" e-mail. I was disappointed, but mostly my pride was hurt. I slumped around for a couple of days being sad and disappointed. Then I realized that there is more to life than law school, and that I could always try again next year and I accepted the fact that I had been rejected and moved on with my life.

Then came Friday. I opened up my e-mail to a great surprise. I had an e-mail from the William Mitchell Law Review Editor in Chief. I had graded on to Law Review. To say I was excited would be an understatement. I'm pretty sure my office mates thought that I was crazy :) Safe to say I couldn't do anymore work that day, I had to run to meet Chris and tell him the good news!

So now I am officially a staff member of the William Mitchell Law Review. I can also officially say that being rejected from something you want so bad is an awful feeling, but you will be a much happier person if you learn to accept life as it comes!

Happy 4th Everyone

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