I assume that much of your effort in legal education has been to master the skill of reading and understanding legal texts. In law school these texts are predominantly judicial opinions and legislative enactments called statutes. Your skill at reading such texts are a focal point of legal education. The successes and failures that you have had as a student are no doubt related in large measure to your mastery of these texts.
Good readers make good lawyers.
It does not occur all that often. We should, in fact, read so as to get the most out of each experience of reading. . . . Our skill, our learning, and our commitment to the text will determine, for each of us, the kind of experience that text provides. Students are formed by the reading they do, by the views of self and world such reading presents. Write about these first experiences as a reader, the earliest ones you can remember, and what these early reading experiences now mean to you.