That’s A Wrap London!

My experience for the summer was very rewarding as well as informative. I walked away with so much more knowledge than what I walked in with. I also gained important writing and communication skills. There’s a major difference between reading a case and writing some solutions and hearing the case from the client’s mouth and hearing their emotions behind it. One of the cases given that we had to argue for the prosecution’s side was read to be black and white but when I saw the people and got to hear from their point of view and everything they were thinking and feeling in those moments made the case seem grey to me at some points. I know definitively that I want to go into criminal law and this experience gave me the hands-on experience and mentorship that I need to be successful in the future.

This experience hasn’t really changed my perspective of the world from the criminal justice point of view. There are good people, there are bad people, and sometimes there are good people who do bad things to survive. We as a society try to categorize the world between black and white, however, there are moments where the only category is grey. From a young adult’s point of view, I’m very grateful to have seen and experienced a different way of life than what I was raised in. It was fascinating to live in a culture that was similar yet so different from the United States.

My capstone project is going very smoothly. I have most of the project completed, I just need to add some personal details to seal the whole thing together.