Blog 6 - Advisory Prep

1. What has worked well for you concerning senior project this year?  What has made it a positive experience for you?  

It certainly has done its job giving me initiative to go out there and learn about my career field.

2. What are you finding difficult concerning senior project?  How can you adapt to make that portion work better for you?  How might the senior team help?

All the busy work (research and Cornell notes) frustrates me. I am INCREDIBLY LAZY when it comes to busy work (which makes sense) so it's not easy trying to adjust to the fact that I have to do this for the whole year. Senior team can help by thinking of better alternatives, or more creative ways we can research on our topics. Another thing that frustrates me is the fact that the surplus summer hours don't go to mentorship hours, which is just as frustrating because I spent 150+ hours during the summer and summer is when my mentor isn't as busy and occupied.

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?
 The most important thing I learned from this interview is how to ask questions better and transition into different topics.

 

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

 Yes I did, the most useful being the ones whom I have business cards of.

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 

Considering how I was worked as her intern for (150+) along with her credentials as a former attorney, I felt that she was more than qualified.

Blog 4: House Advisory Prep

Write a short explanation of what you are hoping to accomplish through your senior project topic.  You will be sharing out on what you've written here with your house advisory and classmates on Friday, 9/11. 

Through my senior topic, besides simply finishing the project and finally graduating out of high school, I want to do it while feeling prepared for the future. That is exactly why I chose this topic: to think long-term and prepare for the future I have ahead of me.

Blog 3

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?
I plan on interviewing my mentor for simple reasons like getting more information about the field of criminal justice and about what it is like to work as one. However, if, by any chance, my mentor isn't available for interviewing, I know a district attorney working at that place whom I know a little. It is possible to set up an interview with him too. If all else fails, my mother has been working for district attorneys for 10+ years, so although the information and answers about criminal justice will be from a slightly different, secondhand point-of-view, it will still be good information nonetheless.




2.  Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?  

• If you could do it all over again, would you still choose this path?
• Have you always wanted to become an attorney?
• What was it that motivated you to go through 4 years of university and 3 years of law school to get where you are at now?
• What is most valued in a prosecuting attorney?
• How often do murder/death penalty cases come up?