It was my first year of law school in the D.C. Metro area. I settled on living in Alexandria, Virginia, but not the cool part. It was a high rise apartment off of – if you can believe it – Jefferson Davis Highway. (I need to check to see if that name still exists). I had a one bedroom apartment on the first floor and became accustomed to things like taking trash to the trash bin through the hallways, using a shopping cart to wheel groceries home, and living on my own for the first time ever.