Melissa Jurik is a wife, mother of three, and a full-time college student in the Paralegal Studies Program at CLC. She returned to college in 2010 after an eleven-year break, when her oldest daughter told her that her aspiration in life was to become a bartender just like Melissa.  At that moment she realized it was time to become a better role model to show her children that college is very important and it is never too late to secure your future by going to college.  In addition to her family, homework and two part-time jobs (as a bartender and a Student Ambassador at CLC), she has completed the Emerging Leaders Program offered at CLC; she is the acting co-president of the Pupils of Paralegal Studies Club, and a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.