To date, I'm seriously entertaining thoughts of entering Law School. I've always wanted to pursue this studies but dad refused every time I blurt it out. He thought that I was just being pushed by friends coz most of them are lawyers. He said that I'm in the marrying age and that will give up my career and have a new set of priorities. This went on for sometime, until a few months before he passed away and we seriously discussed the issue, I told him that I'm still on-the-go for it and I'm still crossing my fingers that he would let me, and yes, after that conversation he finally gave me his blessing and told me that he's confident enough that I would take the matter seriously. I was planning to attend to the application requirements during the 1st quarter of 2008, but I suddenly left the Country for Dubai.
I arrived back in Manila (for good) last April, the Law School thought never left my mind even when I was in Dubai. Until August of the same year when I finally told myself that I don't wanna leave the Country again for work except if the offer would be in Greece (then that's the only time I would have 2nd thoughts on it).
After all these exposures from all the lawyer friends that I've got, I really wanna give it a shot. Francis (together with Greco) is now giving me a feel of how it's gonna be like, and I say, "the hell!!!! WTF, do I really have to read, understand and MEMORIZE all these laws and cases?!? what about my life?!?". I never stopped from ranting, ranting left and right, pop-out clouds are mushrooming left and right every time I'm faced with all those books I was assigned to read.
Inspite of all those rants and complains that I have, I know deep within that I can manage and I'm starting to enjoy all those pages. But the thing that scares me the most is that, what ever it is that I'm doing right now, it'll be double, triple or even quadruple of everything the minute I enter Law School. I know for a fact that I can discipline myself from all those gimmicks and tambays, but I dunno if I can manage to read/study every single day with a minimum of 5 hrs reading, WHOA!!! Will I be ready for the daily recits, would I be able to memorize all those laws, would I manage to read and understand all the assigned readings? Sigh, I dunno ... I really dunno. I think I have to start looking for a memory booster as early as now to condition my body and brain from the things I'm planning to do.
As for the schools, I'm only considering 4, and these are the following (reasons included. School in order of priority) ...
1. FEU - Included in the Country's Top 10 Law Schools. NRR's alma mater. Doesn't have school uniform for the Institute of Law. Francis would be around for a year. (2nd thoughts: parking issue)
2. UST - Included in the Country's Top 10 Law Schools. Nearer than FEU. (2nd thoughts: Uniform. Parking.)
3. Arellano - Included in the Country's Top 10 Law Schools. No uniform. Parking inside the Campus. Ivy, Charm and LJ would be around. (2nd thoughts: kinda far, Taft Ave.)
4. San Sebastian - Tito Dindo can help me enter the Program. Can manage to find a car sticker, c/o Tito Dindo. (2nd toughts: Not sure of the School's ranking. Not sure if they require uniform.)
Come Friday I would be able to get my original copies of TOR and Good Moral certs from MC, I already asked Greco to prepare a Good Moral as well. By the 1st week of March (before NRR's death anniv) I would be jumping from one school to the other filing my application. I will go thru those exams and interviews and the minute I get the results, it's time to pick which school I shall enroll myself at.
I'll do everything I can to convince mom to shoulder my tuition, even if it takes all the money from my insurance, etc. Once I'm officially in, I'll do my best to survive! I'll do this because I've been wanting this since I graduated from College, and I'll be offering this for NRR...
"this is for you, wish you're still around!"
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