My name is Jose Carbonell, I was raised in Queens. I started at Laguardia as a Paralegal Major; I didn’t want to rule out Law school from my future prospects so I changed my major to one that would lead to a more appealing to Law school admission. While it certainly isn’t impossible to get into Law school with a Paralegal degree, it would not be the preferred path. Anyway, so my major is now Liberal Arts: Social Science/Humanities and I plan to go on to study Political Science. Being very familiar and fairly immersed in the curriculum in the Paralegal program, I can certainly tell you that there is a lot less writing involved in Paralegal studies. I wouldn’t place Paralegal studies in the Science section. It would be better described as Technology. From my choice of classes it can be seen that I definitely consider myself leaning toward Humanities. It’s like that old saying “you’re either a left brain or a right brain”, to me this means that some people have an easier time working with numbers or formulas, while others like to play with words and ideas. In no way am I proposing that Mathematics majors or Science majors aren’t creative, I’m just saying that they have more of an inclination to other things. At the same time I could spend countless hours trying to figure out Calculus or Statistic problems, and only achieve an average grade. I’ll give you a better example, Michael Jordan is arguably the best basketball player of all time. With that being said, he was only a mediocre baseball player. Surely his work ethic wasn’t vastly different as he practiced in different disciplines of athletics. The only reasonable explanation why he was able to excel so much in basketball, but fail in baseball was an inclination for one over the other.
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