Hey
everyone. My name is Megan Robertson. I am a Business Major, Political Science
Minor on the Pre-Law track. I worked at the District Attorney’s Office over the
summer and someday I hope to become a lawyer. I am from San Diego, California
and if anyone is familiar with the San Diego area, I live in Ramona. It’s about
forty-five minutes northeast of downtown up in the hills overlooking San Diego.
Everyone always asks me if I go to the beach all the time because I live in
Southern California, but the truth is that I’m actually not a beach type
person. I go every once in a while whenever there is a birthday party being
hosted there or when I go bike riding on the boardwalk or other activities like
those. But honestly, I am much more of a lake or river person. During the
summer, I like to take a boat out and go wakeboarding or waterskiing with my
family and friends. But when it’s winter I love to go snowboarding as much as
possible. And since during the two
truths and a lie game I said that I went scuba diving over the summer, I’ll
explain by saying that I am a certified scuba diver and it is something that I
love because it is both exciting and calming at the same time. And because
practically everyone else already mentioned how many siblings they have, I
might as well tell you all that I have one younger sister named Natalie.
I want
to be a lawyer when I grow up, maybe a Prosecutor, so arguing and debating is
not exactly new to me. Junior year of High School we had a mock trial in our
U.S. History class based on the catastrophic event of the atomic bombs being
dropped at the end of World War II. We had students acting as witnesses,
attorneys, a judge and a jury. Not surprisingly, I volunteered to be the
attorney for my side of the case which was assigned to me to be the pro side.
During this experience I learned that to have an effective argument, you need
to have done your research ahead of time and know your information very well.
You need to be prepared to defend your side of the argument as well as how to intelligently
question the opposing sides’ without the debate becoming hostile. I learned
that there are ways to debate where you can still be respectful of the other
person’s opinion without having to change your own opinion. To me, that is what
makes debating and arguing so much fun, you get to share your opinion with
others while learning what those other people believe also, therefore
broadening your scope on the topic. My team won in the mock trial because we
were well prepared, we enjoyed what we were doing, and we were interested in
what we were learning in the process. I believe my team and I were successful,
not only because we won, but because we learned so much about the topic of our
debate and about how to debate in general.
