Catching up on my journey

For what seems like decades but is actually only about 8 years I have wanted to be a barrister. Not wanting to be 'involved in law'/ dreaming about being an Ally McBeal bearing coffee lawyer, but an actual barrister at the bar.

Where this idea started I am unsure, however, now that I am beginning my last year doing a Law LLb at University I am about to begin the 'challenging' stage of a journey that everyone seems to be advocating as nigh on impossible.

I suppose I am a rather ordinary law student; I have a desperate career dream, I do a lot of debating, I am on track for a 2:1 and have made a somewhat absurd decision to do a choice dissertation of 15 000 words (on parental responsibility). I have had one mini pupillage this summer which I adored and one that I have just been offered at a bigger chambers next Easter, no doubt I will blog about these separately.

What strikes me though, is that although there are many blogs from pupils/ bvc students, there aren't that many that show the whole story, and although I have turned up a little late, I will pledge to describe with gory detail my failures and successes of what I am sure can only be a traumatic journey but one that will gather a light at the end of the tunnel.

Things to blog about in the first few days (when I am enthusiastic and before term starts):

• Choosing Universities
• Mini Pupillages
• Getting the most out of lectures/anything your University does
• Extra curricular activities

These are not in any particular order, and no doubt I will amalgamate them into small heaps on knowledge that no one really uses, however, I should also state that everything here will be of my own opinion and although I will have thought about everything I type, I still may be wrong, so please do not blame me if you follow me up this creek with only me as your paddle - the proverb may turn out to be true!