YOLO

YOLO, You Only Live Once. That is my motto, and the first thing I said to myself when I woke up on the first day of my internship. I was obviously nervous, but had a blast on the drive to the office. I met with my supervisor Vivian, and we discussed the tasks I had for the week, and which days I would be coming in. We also talked about the layout of the firm, and about each of her partners and their specialty in law. Vivian is great, and I know I will enjoy working with her. She is definitely a role model to me, especially because we both come from the same cultural background and have the same interests, politically speaking. The firm is currently going through some changes, and they are trying to computerize everything. They are also switching their database to PCLaw. Vivian told me that they are still new to it, and learning how the system works. I watched the tutorial for the program, and spent the remainder of my time inputting data for cases. When I was about to leave I told vivian about how I am kind of a computer geek (which is totally true), and how I was going to look into the program more on my end to further learn the system. She told me that would be great, and that if I learned the system properly that maybe I could teach it to the rest of the firm. So when I left I spent a few hours over the weekend looking up the database and tutorial etc. I think I have got a good grasp of it, and for sure I will master it this week. Hopefully before I go back on Wednesday and show my newly acquired skills. You know what they say, dress to impress!

Oh and I met the clerk at their Palos Hills office, we talked a bit before my supervisor came in to work. I Love her, she is really sweet. I really think I am going to like it here. YOLO!

It's All About Me!

My name Is Jenna, and I am a 4th year history major at Loyola. I am hoping to go to law school when I graduate, and plan on practicing Immigration Law. I am interested in Immigration law for many reasons. First, I have learned a lot about the different immigration patterns in the United States in some of my history courses. Among my favorite, is the Irish Diaspora. I believe that in learning immigration practices, and policies I can better understand the History of this country; after all, the US is a "melting pot" of immigrants. One of the other reasons I am interested in immigration law is the fact that I have personally had to deal with the strenuous, and ever-changing immigration laws. Last February I had applied for my fiance to come to the US so that we may start our life and get married. We dated when I was in high school in Amman, Jordan for 2 years. For the past year of my life, I have been filling out documents, checking updates, and pretty much sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for any notice from the USCIS, NVC, or US embassy in Amman. The journey has been very strenuous, and extremely frustrating. I have a lawyer whom I hired to facilitate me in the case, and he hasn't helped me very much. I did ALL of the paperwork, and when something new happens in regards to the case I am the one calling the lawyer in order to see what new steps need to be taken. Obviously, this upset me very much. As a result, I vowed to assure that when I become a lawyer that I will do whatever is in my power to re-unite loved ones. I am very passionate about this subject, which is why I am hoping to learn a lot from my internship at KAM-Law.