University of Michigan Law School student

I am a native and constant Ypsilantian, only living outside the city while at Hillsdale and while I worked on a farm in New York for half a summer. I was home-schooled until I went to Hillsdale, though I took several classes at the local community college during my high school years. After Hillsdale I worked on Congressman Tim Walberg's campaign, and then went to law school, spending about six months in between as a freelance guitarist in Ann Arbor.

The necessity of the rule of law to lasting freedom.

If a liberal education is what you want, then Hillsdale should be high on your list. I don't know of a school that takes traditional liberal education more seriously than Hillsdale does. And if preparation for law school is a consideration, then Hillsdale makes all the more sense, as the academic environment at Hillsdale produces strong law students.

I chose Hillsdale because I thought it was the best place for me to study politics.

In at least two ways: 1) Hillsdale teachers demanded clear thinking and explanation no less than my law school teachers do; 2) Hillsdale dramatically increased my appetite for learning, encouraging me to study harder and enter arguments more capably than I could before I went to college.

I am afraid I must give a few highlights rather than just one. Meeting and getting to know the woman I'm going to marry. Additionally, I am so pleased to have the remarkable friends I made at Hillsdale--the personalities and interests among the studentry are wonderfully diverse. Finally, becoming acquainted with the greatest books ever written and the greatest thinkers and doers who ever lived.

affink@umich.edu