No. 1 - Of pathways and preparations
Write about a life-changing decision you or someone you know had to make. Focus on the emotional journey leading to that decision. At that point it was no longer a question of whether I'd enter law school, it's simply a decision; and though conditioned on me passing the famed UP Law Aptitude Exam (UP LAE), I was pretty sure I'd enter law school in one way or another, in UP or not, but hopefully in UP of course. The decision was finally made about six or seven years ago (pre-pandemic as they'd call it). I spoke to my boss about entering law school as I intended to enter as a working student, he was supportive of it which added to my excitement - so things were planned, by things I meant: Taking the Philippine Law School Admission Test (PhilSAT), supposedly a National Level similar to the LSAT in the US. Taking the UP LAE. Inquiring about law programs from other schools. Those are mostly what I had my mind into for quite a while then, an of course daydreaming about the