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Undergraduate GPA: 3.0LSAT: 163Applied to Florida State University.Accepted.Sometimes, it takes years to discover what you are really good at; some folks know right away. Youve read the statements of countless applicants who have a story about their lifelong love of law and their desire to continue the legacies of their fathers, but my story is not one of those. My story begins with a seed, a fortune cookie, which, at the time I opened it was like some kind of bad joke. You would make a good lawyer. Living in bohemian New Orleans as a creative writing major, I cracked open my cookie, read these words, and considered it a cosmic insult. I did not recognize until years later—after having worked several years in the legislative arena—the eerie prescience of the cookies message.When I could no longer afford my tuition at Loyola University New Orleans, I relocated to Tallahassee, and Florida State University, in order to take advantage of the available Bright Futures money and in-state tuition. As a student in Tallahassee, I had not spent a great deal of time considering what went on inside the gigantic Capitol building or the other bland government buildings downtown. I was a poet, trained in creative writing; however, as you may be aware, employment in the field is hard to come by, particularly in a town the size of Tallahassee, and so I accepted a position at the Clerks Office of the Florida House after graduation. It is dumb luck that I found an available editing job, as they, too, are in short supply. I considered myself in much better shape than most of my creative writing peers, in that I was being hired into a position in which I would be encouraged—required, even!—to use one or two of the skills I had acquired in college. I was well aware that English majors often accepted the first salaried office job they were offered, regardless of what paper-pushing drudgery it represented. I was lucky.I didnt know my editing job would turn into anything more than t