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Personal Statement A week after my family’s convenience store was held up by an armed robber, the night shift’s cashier quit. As I found myself filling the void, I heard every second of the night pass, by the ticking of the second hand. It was like the sound of a cat scratching a blackboard. However, having been raised in urban New York, I was not overcome with agony due to fear but rather I was anticipating the outcome of a legal mediation that was to occur the next afternoon. My parents had been cheated when they bought a gas station from a seller who had gravely misrepresented the facts and figures. At the time of the purchase, my parents and the seller signed a closing statement with a title company for $1.7 million, which a bank entirely financed with a first lien note. My parents, without understanding the situation due to the language barrier, also signed a second lien note for $750,000.00, which is unrecorded in the closing statement and therefore invalid