Five weeks in. The fellowship has reached its midway point. Wow. Didn’t we just get started? There is still so much I would like to learn and do with my host site, and it is a painful realization that my work will inevitably be cut short in just five more short weeks. I suppose this is par the course for life; one moment you are starting something–high school, college, an internship, or in this case, a fellowship–and the next thing you know it’s all over. We’re left scraping the annals of our subconscious, attempting to recollect and hold on to all of the memories and lessons from that experience before it all becomes a mere blip in our memory, remembered only as a blur of various events. I am determined to make the most of these final five weeks here. I will continue building relationships with all of the wonderful individuals I have had the good fortune of working with this summer. I will continue to produce increasingly efficient and high quality work. And I will continue soak up as much information as I possibly can throughout the remaining duration of my time here.

 

This past week I met with my mentor, and boss, and discussed my future career. We discussed the prospect of interning in a corporate law firm, a career objective of mine in the next year or two, and an area of expertise for my mentor who worked in the corporate law realm for a multitude of years. She has graciously furnished me with advice from her previous experiences, including the ostensibly minute details that would be lost on other law students, which will provide me with a slight advantage over my peers and a head start in my future workplace. This has proven to be one of the most remunerative aspects of the fellowship this summer: working directly with an attorney that has had a career arch that I aspire to emulate one day. Virtually no other experience I could have had this summer would have been as pertinent or impactful than what I am currently engaged in.