A Character-Building Wedding Cake
Zain Ahmad / Rutgers University...
Most nineteen-year-old men do not find themselves with the responsibility of selecting someone else’s wedd...
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Leadership
What makes a leader? Boston College Law School does......
It forms hundreds of them year after year after year. BC Law alumni have used the lessons learned in law sch...
Writing Their Way into Law School
The eloquent admission essays of five new 1Ls: Zain Ahmad, Jennawe Hughes, J...
Grade point averages and LSAT scores, extracurricular activities and past achievements are all part of the m...
The Little Incubator That Could
In a tough part of Boston, an innovation center thrives on the energy of min...
Dean Vincent Rougeau opened the Boston Globe last summer and discovered something new: an MIT grad named...
Witness to an Evolution
How Professor Quinn has influenced the economic emergence of Vietnam since t...
Among his many distinctions, Professor Brian Quinn can probably claim to be the only American academic, let ...
Of Law and War
Jennawe Hughes / West Point...
Walking into a dusty and seemingly abandoned courtroom in Tuz, Iraq, I shook my head, thinking to myself tha...
“I Am What I Am, and What I’m Not”
Jeremy Levesque / Tulane University, Boston College...
The path that has led me to this essay, at this university, has been anything but easy. I am the son of a tr...
A Long Way from Hanoi
Mai Zymaris / Harvard Law School...
When I declined my former law firm’s generous offer to return to them after completing my LLM degree at Ha...
A Spot of Brown in a Sea of White
Charlene Ochogo / University of Florida...
The first time I was called a nigger, it wasn’t in the sandbox. It didn’t come from the mouth of a callo...
Winning Wordsmiths, Five Years On
Graduates stay true to the ideals they espoused in 2009....
The first time BC Law Magazine published outstanding admission essays was in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue. The personal statements of seven first-year students were a window into the character of the Class of 2012. We recently caught up with the original essayists to find out where they wound up. Hannah Coman (formerly Rogers-Ganter) draws on her background in ...