Undergraduate School: Westminster College
Undergraduate Major: Marketing

Like nearly all evening students. Marshall Cook finds his days are pretty full.

“The thing with evening school is that as soon as you’re done working, you’re working again, almost immediately,” Cook says.

Cook leaves home in the morning to clerk at a Sacramento transactional firm, works a full day and then begins a full evening schedule of classes at Pacific McGeorge. On most days, he finishes well after 10 p.m., a full 14 hours or more after starting work.

Three years after the imploding tech sector prompted him to leave investment banking, Cook now sees “light at the end of the tunnel,” and is firming up plans for life after law school. He will work as a summer associate this year for McDonough Holland & Allen, where he expects to sample a variety of potential specialty areas. He’s intrigued by health care law, but plans to get a look at real estate and business law as well.

Cook is under no delusions that life after law school will be easy, but he has allowed himself to think about one benefit of no longer having two full-time occupations -- the return of a beloved hobby. “I love to make hardwood furniture,” he says, “but I just don’t have time for that now.”