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My name is David Mejia-Canales and I studied the Juris Doctor here at RMIT and I guess
I'd describe myself as really blood committed. The Juris Doctor is a postgraduate law degree
essentially so Juris Doctor comes from the American Juris Doctor degree and to implement
it here essentially you study an undergraduate degree in anything that isn't law and the
Juris Doctor just complements what you studied so that you can be a lawyer. I've always wanted
to study law, I just took a very roundabout way of doing it. I studied arts elsewhere
and then essentially the degree found me, I got an email notification say that there
was this new Juris Doctor program opening at RMIT and if I was interested to apply so
I did and the rest is history, I was taken in. The degree is still relatively new I was
very happy to be accepted, finally, into law. The best thing about studying the Juris Doctor
here at RMIT is probably the absolute challenge of it. It is very very difficult like every
law degree is difficult but it was an enjoyable challenge because all the new material and
trying to get your head around that was really really enjoyable. In five years' time I'll
probably be five years older, I know that for a certainty but I hope to have established
myself in the legal profession, I'd like to be making inroads to head off into the Victorian
bar to work as a barrister, that's my ultimate aim but whatever it is that I'm doing I really
do hope that I enjoy it.