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The next chapter in your life by Janai

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Janai, Class of 2018, explains how the Macy's Street Law program helped her choose her major and gives advice on choosing a college to fit your major. Janai participated in the Macy's Street Law program her junior year.          When I started high school I started thinking about what I wanted to study in college. The middle of my freshman year I realized that I was very interested in the law and how it could help people. When I realized that I wanted to study law in college, I started looking at schools near and far that offered law programs.            Once I did that I was in my junior year in high school. Then one day I learned that my school did a Street Law program. That’s when some lawyers come from Macy's and teach you about law and tell what they do at their job on an everyday basis. At the end of the program, you go to the Macy's law office, and you get to pretend to be a lawyer. You are either defending Macy's or you are defending the person suing