The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

I stumbled upon a blog set up by a doctoral candidate in mass communications researching why people start up blogs. Below is what I posted on his site:

I started blogging to complement the legal education I was about to pursue. One of the reasons I was motivated to go to law school was because the Important People were making all sorts of horrid decisions without asking me what I thought. Then I realized, I wasn't SAYING anything. I started the blog in large part because I wanted to start speaking up in the world, and this was an outlet, as someone [had] pointed out upthread, that didn't require annointment from the op-ed page editors of the world in order to be able to do it.

I also wanted to use it as a tool to measure the changes in my thinking the legal education was likely to affect. Although I blog about random things as the mood strikes, the core theme to it is the "Great Change" and how I've been changing, as a thinker and as a person, as a result of my education. To that end I talk about milestones in the process, contemplate legal doctrines and policies, and generally express thoughts about the world as I see it through my law student eyes. Through this exercise I hope that when I'm finished with school I will have left enough breadcrumbs that I can go back and review my growth.

Of course, these are but two of the reasons why I blog. But they are two of the biggest.