Law School Diaries, No.997:
I gave FIU Law the pieces of me that were left after the soul shattering events of 2020… and that may have been the best decision I’ve made yet 💜
I have not had so much support to succeed from anyone except Shara (and how COULD I neglect to include you Friends?!). Yet faculty, staff, support staff have shown and expressed support for me beyond my wildest imaginings today.
They have told me and shown me that I will not be alone on this journey.
I am overwhelmed. I am so overwhelmed.
They said it would be an FIU Law family and I didn’t get it because the idea of family had become so dysfunctional/toxic to me, especially leading up to 2020. So I cringed when they kept hammering in the idea of ‘family’.
But if even some of what I was shown and was a part of today is their version of family? I’ll be part of a pretty solid family in the coming four years.
At one point I almost ducked out in the middle of orientation cause I became so overwhelmed with their generosity and care of and for me.
Oh man… I signed up to do something that is so much more than anything I could ever imagine.
This feels so much bigger than what I can comprehend…