#  Caroline Trusty 

Class of 2014, Modern Europe

Law Student, Harvard Law School

 

 

 



   ![screen_shot_2016-08-05_at_9.07.31_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/histlit/files/screen_shot_2016-08-05_at_9.07.31_am.png?itok=PDxl-8o9) 

 



 





 

**Thesis Title:** A War in Their Heart: The Pieds-Noir Rhetorical Construction of Identity After the Algerian War

**What Now:** Third-year law school student at Harvard Law School  
  
I started college knowing that I wanted to go to law school. In my search for a concentration at Harvard College, I looked for a program that would give me the skills that I needed both to get into law school, and to eventually become a successful lawyer. History & Literature teaches those skills; as a History & Literature concentrator I learned to write, research, analyze, edit, form and critique arguments, and clearly articulate my ideas, both in writing and in speech. The first year of law school is especially difficult; there’s a lot of new material, unfamiliar ways of thinking, and dense reading assignments. Thanks to having gone through the History & Literature program, and having been exposed to an extensive list of types of literature, from different time periods, places, etc., I had the foundational skills necessary to hit the ground running with the new material law school brought. And, because I went straight through from college to law school, the fundamental capabilities I’d cultivated through History & Literature were particularly integral to my success that first year.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Career Paths
    
     [Law](/alumni/law)