I am pumped

The other day--or was that yesterday?--, I finally received my schedule for my upcoming UP Law Admission Interview. It is set on May 30th in the afternoon at the UP College of Law. Ever since I learned that I qualified for the interview--meaning I passed the UP LAE--all the partners in the firm already gave me their pep talks.

U told me that it was better to take night classes because professors are usually practicing law in law firms, unlike day time professors whose career is all in the academe. Night time professors understand the sentiments of law students who are also working. U also told me that I have all the resources for studying, since by staying in the firm, I will be able to use the resources, the internet and the office itself for my studying.

N gave me tips for the interview. Since he is also a professor (and a department chair) for another top law school, he knows what the panel is looking for. He told me I need to focus on my resilience, how I overcome my failures (he knows I have failing grades, probably that's why), relating law with technology since I graduated engineering, how to talk and look the right way on the day of the interview itself.

B was the first one to give me tips the day after the release of the qualified interviewees. He gave me a question he was asked decades before, for his own UP Law admission interview. Coincidentally, this is also the same questions that was asked recently based on a Redditor posting about LAE interviews.

Overall, they are all supportive. And I am pumped. And I am nervous. Getting there to feel confident. On Saturday, I will attend a mock interview organized by different fraternities, sororities and organizations in UP. The mock panel will be comprised of past bar exam topnotchers. It will be a whole day event and I am really nervous. It has been a while that I really put myself into this kind of challenge.

In general, I just feel excitement. I don't want to be over-confident, but I am just ready for it. I can't wait to learn, to study, to meet new people, to challenge myself and my mind. I need to own this interview!