The past week in my Independent Study and Mentorship class has been primarily focused on working to schedule my last needed interview before break and my 10 minute research speech which I also gave last week. Things have been slightly stressful with the pressure of the research speech, and for some reason the 3rd interview is most definitely the hardest to schedule.
Scheduling my 3rd interview was most definitely a challenge because I was to the point where I felt no one was responding, I felt I had already found good people, and was ready to be done reaching out to so many people with no response. However, grateful as can be I finally secured my last interview before break this past Friday. The interview will take place this upcoming Friday on Zoom as that fits her schedule the best, and I am still eagerly looking forward to hearing more opinions and advice on the field of family law. I am very glad I got this last interview scheduled before Thanksgiving break so fingers crossed I can finalize my mentor as soon as we get back from break. Things are getting very real!! And I am just so excited to begin my mentorship even though I don’t even have a mentor selected yet. To think how much I am going to learn as I already feel I have learned so much from just simply the interviews.
Next up from my week was the research speech! This speech was 10 minutes long and consisted of anything and everything we have learned so far about our field from interviews, articles, journals, etc. I primarily talked about what family law was, a family attorney interacting with clients, and aspects of family law in court. I feel as if my speech went decently well because I most definitely knew my information very well, however a little more practice would have been helpful. I can never decide if practicing a lot stresses me out more or actually helps, but overall I would say this speech went pretty well for what I was expecting and just for the first one. However, I did realize I need to work on being more engaging and passionate about my topic as Kayla and Sophie sadly informed me that I never smiled once in my presentation… that’s embarrassing. I get so focused on the speech and what I am saying, I forget I have a whole audience that needs to be engaged as well. That is the aspect I hope to work on more over the next few months in preparation for my upcoming speeches because nobody is going to want to listen to my final 30 minute speech if I am not engaging.
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