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Cornell RD Class of 2023 Discussion Thread
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Please rate my essay any feedback would be great.
International student.
it's a letter to myself in the future to my young self.
Dear Young Krish,
I’m writing to inform you that you have succeeded.
I remember how it all began. In broad daylight, a dark black suitcase hangs beside a struggling lawyer, Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman. A charming, impatient man prepared to bend the rules to help people. As Breaking Bad’s crooked lawyer, he was an easy way for the show to move beyond money laundering. But for us, the show was more than just money. Perhaps, we already knew all we needed from our commerce-related internships. No, as a young 14-year old, our path changed before our eyes.
Cornell. History or ‘His story’ as I liked to call it. Law.
You, or I guess we, became obsessed(in that exact order). Looking for “Legal Studies” books in the library was a thrill; exploring law through former lawyers and local firms and reading articles on Gamble v. United States and Brown v. Board of Education, proved to be infatuating. But if I’m honest, our interest began long before my 2016 binge-watching of the Breaking Bad prequel. It began when we were studying Indian civics. With full scores and a textbook our head was constantly buried in, the social sciences always spoke to us, just like Cornell did.
Despite your inability to pursue law or even a humanities stream in high school due to lack of choice, the work you did in commerce has been invaluable. You tenaciously found connections between commerce and law - viewing your business classes as classes in persuasion. And the case studies you became entangled within entrepreneurship were merely lessons in interpreting facts. The history courses you took from Harvard University kept your mind curious about the world around you.
With some of the best departments in country for historical study and top-rated faculty, including professors Glenn Altschuler and lecturer Jason Glenn, our knowledge on empires, colonialism and historical geography flourished at the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences through courses like HIST 3542: The Ottoman Empire 1800-1922 and HIST 4460: Strategy in World War II.
Remember that time when everybody struggled with that Climate change chapter?
We inevitably managed to breeze through it and went on to pursue a minor in Climate Change at Cornell.
Because of your hard work, I am writing to you as a practicing lawyer. While I certainly don’t bend the rules like Saul, I do manage to help a few people here and there.
Best regards,
Krish Sapru, J.D.
I'll be happy to send my thoughts soon via PM