Contributing to My Interests in This Field

Last semester I was in Criminal and Juvenile Law with Mr. Packard. Originally, last year while attending Pelham Memorial Highschool I had already made my schedule for the senior year that was intended for Pelham which included Forensics and AP psychology as well as Criminal Justice. I was very excited for once for these classes that I ws finally getting a chance to take as a senior. Much to my surprise, after being granted the ability to be in all three of these demanding classes as a senior at Pelham, which is nearly unheard of, I was suddenly in Somers Highschool picking out whatever available courses that had any space and that could fit to make a schedule to allow me to graduate in a two weeks notice before school started. I was rather bitter you could say as for the first time I was really looking forward to a lot of my classes I was going to be taking due to it being so closely related to what I wanted to do in my future. It was really going to give me an insight into if this was really what I wanted to do or not. Fortunately, I lucked out with them being able to squeeze me into the criminal and juvenile law class last semester that Mr. Packard teaches. This class taught me more then what I had thought I would learn going into it. We touched on not only the different programs for children that are offenders, but also the death penalty, along with performing mock trials and the work that goes along with preparing for such a thing. I was surprised at myself for not losing interest once the gritty part of law enforcement was through and the lawyer aspect of the system was more focused on. I still loved it all.