{"id":530,"date":"2014-08-19T21:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/?p=530"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:09:59","slug":"update-julyaugust-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/19\/update-julyaugust-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; July\/August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it has been ages since I last posted on here, and I am sorry about that but everything has been quite manic. \u00a0I am going to start posting once (and aiming for twice ideally) a week &#8211; so do check them out!<\/p>\n<p>So this post is going to be a slight update of what I have been up to over the last month or two&#8230; I am currently writing this on a plane to Miami, but by the time I upload this I will be back home in hopefully a sunny England (it definitely isn&#8217;t very sunny..more like winter!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; So at the moment I am busy researching away for my dissertation, I had all my initial ideas back in January\/February time and have been doing bits of research along the way &#8211; technically this all doesn&#8217;t start until October when Uni recommences but I wanted to be a bit ahead in terms of research!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I cannot quite believe that I am entering the final year of my law degree this September\/October &#8211; in roughly 6 months I will have finished and part of me is so excited to call myself a law graduate but equally I know how much I am going to miss studying my degree. \u00a0After wanting to study law at Uni since I was little to being months away from completing my degree is an extremely bizarre feeling. \u00a0Unfortunately I technically don&#8217;t graduate until November 2015 as Herts Uni seem to hold their graduation ceremonies very late on in the year! I am really looking forward to studying again and it will be so nice to finally say I have achieved my LLB, not because I have studied it differently to how I have imagined but because ever since I can remember I have really wanted to achieve this and I will finally be able to say I have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Towards the end of the summer term at Uni last year (I say last year, I mean May\/June time) I was fortunate once again to participate in some advocacy activities as well as support other students. \u00a0I really enjoy being able to work on my own advocacy skills, but find it so rewarding helping other students as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You may have noticed that I have been tweeting quite a bit for UniLawStudents and whilst this is currently in the process of a website reshuffle (soon to be going properly live), I organised a competition for students to get involved in. \u00a0The competition has now closed but I will be posting the details on here, just so you can see the sort of things I have been up to as well as give you a feel for the other competitions that will be going up towards the end of the month and in September.<\/p>\n<p>I will be back a bit later on with a blog post for you on something legal, and will remember to upload the ULS competition information at some point over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it has been ages since I last posted on here, and I am sorry about that but everything has been quite manic. \u00a0I am going to start posting once (and aiming for twice ideally) a week &#8211; so do check them out! 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