我很高兴通过了律师考试，并于2019年9月在芝加哥一家律师事务所找到了一份法律助理的工作。Eventually, I would like to be a patent attorney and work with inventors.
I enjoyed working as an engineer for almost two years, but in planning my future, I wanted to build my writing and speaking skills while still staying technical and using my engineering degree. Additionally, I wanted to make sure that I would be able to make an impact on volunteering and helping my community in my future career path. Pursuing patent law seemed like a perfect fit!
While I attended CLC, two engineering professors—Margie Porter and Michelle Leonard—were my mentors in the Scholars program and helped me believe in myselfwhen I was pursuing engineering. Margie gave me my first engineering project and Michelle helped me navigate through my first career fair.
Rob Twardock, also an engineering professor, was a mentor who helped me build confidence in my abilities to be an engineer. He also helped me plan Engineering Club meetings when I was the group’s president.
CLC's Scholars program ensured a well-rounded college experience.我很喜欢这些活动，比如讨论当前的话题。特别是，我们阅读并讨论了畅销书《半边天:将世界各地的女性压迫转化为机会》。” (The book, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is a call to arms against the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.)
Learning more about issues, such as sex trafficking in other countries, motivated me to stay focused on my studies because I felt more privileged to have the opportunity to study.
Outside of class, I made a lot of friends from Latino Alliance and in the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.Serving as vice president of membership for Phi Theta Kappa allowed me to attend conferences and meet people from different schools.
Additionally, the TRiO team (a federally funded program offering success-supporting services) and Rodolfo Ruiz-Velasco, multicultural student access and success coordinator, helped me build self-confidence by allowing me to assist others as a peer mentor.
I still am very good friends with many of my friends from the Engineering Club.This was one key to my success at CLCbecause my engineering friends and I had two tables where we sat and did homework together in the library. It was nice to have a support system of people with whom to talk through the engineering problems.
When I was in high school, I found the cost of starting at a four-university to be prohibitive.经过更多的研究，我决定从CLC开始，因为我对学生在这所大学获得的大量机会和他们在实现目标方面获得的支持印象深刻。