Taras Vizzi:  

"Sharing my Story"by Taras Vizzi. Much of my story can be found at my website which includes an educational and professional biography which includes the only slightly dated photograph shown as part of my profile. As the name of the website implies, much of my life revolves around law given the fact that I am an attorney. Nonetheless, I will give a short encapsulation of what has happened in the some 40 years since graduating Glenelg High School. Once I graduated, I never looked back. I attended what was then called Loyola College, where I majored in political science and became founder and president of the Young Democrats of Loyola College. (And yes, that is still my affiliation) I knew, even before going to Loyola, that I wanted to be an attorney and that desire was strengthened through the education I received at that college. Upon graduating from Loyola, I did a summer internship with then Congresswoman-later to be Senator-the Hon. Barbara Mikulski. Let's just say that Congresswoman Mikulski was as feisty as she was short. As far as my Washington DC was experiences concerned, I came away disliking our capital, and not because of the impossible streets to maneuver, but because of the constant and intense rivalries that seem to overshadow any relationship regardless of whether it was personal or professional. Washington DC is a city of egos. But after that internship ended, I found myself working for the same corporation that my father had worked for many years, namely Bechtel Corp. To be frank, I was treading water at this corporation because it did not fit with what I wanted to be, which was an attorney. So eventually, I applied to, and was accepted to, both the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law. I chose the former because of its reputation, and its reputation was that it was the more difficult of the two law schools. For those of my former classmates who have children, or grandchildren, contemplating law school, I would simply give those children one piece of fair warning; ...Expand for more