[blindlaw] New Member Intro and Questions

[helga.schreiber26 at gmail.com]

Hi Aimee, this is Helga! That's great that you are persuing the carreer  of 
becoming a lawyer. In fact, I also want to become a lawyer in order to 
advocate for the disabled individuals and students, including visually 
impaired individuals and students in order to help them get the rights that 
they are entitle to. Actually, I'm not able to answer all your questions 
right now since I'm not in Law school due to the fact that I'm stil in 
college completing my Associates of Arts Degree, and I have a long time of a 
journey before I even get there! However, I always like to hear stories of 
people like you who are persuing this carreer since they motivate me and 
specially if that person is visually impaired or blind. I actually have a 
long story about how I became blind, but this circumstance  didn't stop me 
so that I could fulfill my dreams. I will really like to talk to you!, but 
only if you want of course!  Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you so much 
for listening to me and God bless!

-----Original Message----- 
From: Aimee Harwood
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:33 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] New Member Intro and Questions

Hello everyone. I hope this email finds you all well.  My name is Aimee. I 
am seriously considering law school. I have read about the issues with the 
LSAT and would like to see if anyone has any suggestions and or 
recommendations to make that process more successful. I haven't narrowed 
down what schools I would be most interested in attending. I would like to 
see if there are schools that are more blind friendly than others. Could 
some of you please tell me about your experiences at the schools you 
attended? How difficult was it to juggle the 16 hour semesters and what 
methods did you use to accomplish all of the reading, assignments, 
outlining, and or whatever methods used to keep everything straight. Sighted 
people use highlighters, underlining, and many other visual aids to manage 
the massive amount of information covered in law school. How will a blind 
person manage all of this information so that when it comes exam time, I 
won't be studying unnecessary information. I totally understand that this 
will be totally different than undergrad and really would like some insight 
on how we manage it all.

Everyone says I will make a great lawyer. It is really great to have the 
genuine support from those who know me well enough to make a statement 
regarding my suitability for the profession. I look forward to learning 
everything and anything related to being a lawyer. It is something I have 
been interested in doing sins I was a teenager. I just didn't have the 
connection to other blind individuals or organizations and didn't think 
Blind people could be lawyers. I wasn't introduced to JAWS and computers 
until long after high school. Here is a funny joke. I thought I would be 
able to be a horse trainer more than I would be able to be a lawyer. I 
suppose that was because I had been working with or at least riding horses 
since I was a young girl.I am going into law school as a non-traditional 
student. I am making a later in life career change. Unfortunately I am not 
able to do the horse life any more. The president of my chapter said to me 
one evening, "Why don't you go to law school?" I had already been thinking 
about it, but that was the start of this new chapter.

Again, I really look forward to this journey and hearing the good, bad, and 
the ugly that you all have to share with me.


Aimee
Sent from my iPad
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