<3 this hit a nerve. I remember being in 3rd year when a friend who would clerk talked about getting the offer and their partner saying "you did it! Those years were worth it!" and realizing other students had come into law school with this body of knowledge on opportunities https://twitter.com/AEnenajor/status/1274694990845947904

and potential. I slowly discovered people had been taking French lessons at night, courses with faculty vs adjuncts to set up reference letters strategically, diversifying courses deliberately, avoiding extracurriculars that would sap time or not be strategically beneficial...

I had no idea. When I brought my resume and cover letter to the designated Faculty/reviewer at UofT, she made fun of how I had used litigation words wrong. I am not sure I knew clerkships existed for most of law school, I certainly never thought of myself as a person who could

get one. My SCC interviews were a thrill, and in hindsight getting them because I took things I loved and was interested in, and excelled for the pure passion of it, is just the way I would have wanted it. But I have wondered what would have been possible if that network of

knowledge, strategy and opportunities had been less insular and intergenerational.