About Me
Welcome to my page! My name is Robert Ritacca Jr. I am currently a senior at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. I am double majoring in criminal justice and general business. My love for criminal justice along with my passion for law has encouraged me to pursue a career in law. This past fall, I put my efforts into preparing for the Law School Admission Test, and just recently I sat for the exam. Now, I am awaiting my score and applying to law schools around the Midwest.
Introducing My Most Valuable Learning Experiences
I am forever grateful for the education I received and the people that I have met in my time at Loras College. The Criminal Justice program was a unique field that opened my mind to a vast amount of issues that plagues our society either domestically or internationally. The criminal justice program at Loras College opened my mind to many concepts and issues including crime, juvenile delinquency, restorative justice, the correctional system, criminology theories, and criminal law. The expertise I was able to obtain in these extensive topics I was able to apply successfully to an internship. The Loras College criminal justice program is not only geared around classroom lecture. It requires its students to complete an internship with the option of being between 3 and 9 credits. I was fortunate enough this summer to be accepted as an intern at the Law Office of James Schwarzbach. At my law office site in Waukegan, Illinois I was able to successfully apply my knowledge and acquired skills to a 9 credit internship. Upon the completion of my internship this past summer, I not only learned about the career I want to pursue, but I learned about myself and my strengths that apply to the criminal justice field. The reason I was able to learn about my skills and strengths within the field was through Loras requiring weekly reflections and a final reflection paper. These weekly reflections and final paper called for me to describe the correlation between my classroom learning and my internship. I admit that the final paper was by far the most difficult, but at the same time, the most satisfying work that I had written in my college career. The requirements of the the internship challenged and motivated me to be a better student, which undoubtedly I became over the course of the experience. The reason I became a better student is I applied the Loras dispositions of being an an active learner and responsible contributor to my field observations. Below I have attached my final reflection paper from this past summer that I am proud to say I received an A grade on.
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