Lessons from My Law School Failure

n life failure is synonymous with death. We do not know when failure and death will happen, how either will happen, but, death and failure will happen. This was the first thought that rushed throughout my mind when I processed the news of my dismissal from law school. My greatest accomplishment being admitted into law school. My greatest failure (was not reaching my goal and ) being dismissed from law school. I consider my first year, failure due to not academically succeeding my first year. Furthermore, I have accepted responsibility for my past academic performance and I admit it was due to my lack of effective study habits. However, with this failure, there are lessons that I’ve learned that have outweighed my failure my first year of law school. Since my dismissal from law

I believe the experienced I gain assisting survivors in their time of need will help me look my clients in the eye to assist them.This experience gave me strength through the storm. Failing forward was the hardest lesson I learn sitting out this academic year. I wanted to be depressed, upset, and angry about my first year, but instead of moping around and dwelling on my failure I wanted to turn this failure into a success story. I read a book by John Maxwell called “Failing Forward” that helped me this year through Hurricane Harvey and my academic dismissal. I realized through reading the book that I am in good company. Everyone who is successful or at the top of their career has dealt with failure. Reading this book helped me to not make excuses about my failure. I learned that failure is a necessary part on the road to success. Embracing my failure helped me gain confidence to continue my journey to reaching my goal which is being readmitted into Thurgood Marshall School of law and ultimately graduating from Thurgood Marshall School of