Our First Senior Trip!

Today we went to a law firm by the name of Hogan Lovells to discuss our future. I had the opportunity to introduce myself to the three lawyers that were assigned to my group. On this field trip they provided us with lunch. For lunch we had pizza, salad, and cookies. We were split up into two groups and put into different rooms. As we were eating we dicsussed the college life and the transition from high school to college.

We were able to ask questions and the first questioned I asked was how to not stress over the pressure of the career your parents pressure you into doing over your desired passion. The lawyers told me to do what will make me happy because it is better to be broke and happy then successful and very depressed in shorter words. Theyalso answered many questions. One question that I like was said by Markus Batchelor he asked whether he should stay in DC for politics because he was scared he was going to lose out on the know of DC life. Both lawyers basicallly explained to him that DC will not have a significant change within 4 years and how you leaving can bring into new perspectives of how DC should run. TThey asked us about the college process and our senior year and we explained to them that it is less stressful right now because we had to do many applications in the beginning of the year due to Senior Seminar. Senior is still stressful but i feel that it would be more stressed if we were still doing applications and all of these projects.

I really liked our lunch with the lawyers. I was a litle skeptical about what was going to happen or how people were going to act. but this proves again that one should not judge a book by its cover and do not come into anything with an already set perception of what the experience would be like.