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April 19, 2021 When BYU Law student Melissa Jo “MJ” Townsend was growing up, her mother frequently reminded her that
she a member of “the People” was the government.
“I never really got that,” Townsend recalled. “I thought, ‘No, I’m just a kid from San Clemente, my voice doesn’t really matter. I’m small.’”
Photo by Alyssa Dahneke
Photo by Alyssa Dahneke
As she prepares to graduate this month, Townsend says that her three years of study at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School have radically changed her perspective.
“Everything we do in law school has engendered in me a deep reverence for the Constitution,” she observed. “I think about it each day now the protections it offers us, the difference it makes, the ideals it embodies and it’s something I want to defend and support. Of course, I’ve always known in my head what the law is, but now it’s settled in my heart.”
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Why did you choose to come to Flagler?
It was my first-time visiting St. Augustine. We came here for Orlando, and I remembered I applied to a Florida school, and we were going be two hours away. We came here to look at the school, and I found out it is was, like, the #1 [most] beautiful school in the country. So, we took a tour, and I fell in love with it.
How did you choose your majors and minors?
My neighbor is a tax manager, and I knew he was making a good amount of money. I was really good with numbers, so he told me to take an accounting class in high school, and I got the hang of it really quick. My teacher was like, “You should take it up as a major in college,” and I did. Finance kind of came along with that. I wanted to broaden myself and finance kind of goes along with accounting. Business Admin basically comes with the accounting major. I knew that computers are everything nowadays, so I really wanted to get familiar with Computer Information Systems. Ec