As a student who spend most of the time on stem subject, I used to think of the world as clear and defined, especially when it comes to law enforcement and sentence. Since there’re written laws, all we need to do is to sentence accordingly. However, this talk with judge Miller changed my former perspective and made me realize that life isn’t just right or wrong, there’s so much in the middle, and when we are making a judgment, we need not only consider the surface and come to a conclusion of right or wrong, because there’re so many other things about them that we don’t know.

Also, as an international student, there’s a lot of the American laws and the citizen’s right that I wasn’t familiar with, so this talk is very educating in telling me about the right that I have. For example, judge Miller mentioned a case that two policemen searched a person walked by just because they smell Majorana on him, despite the fact that he rejected the search. Even though they found it in his jacket that he put aside, this can’t be used as an evidence on the court, because they didn’t have a concrete and supported reason before searching him.

Overall, I found this talk really different from the past talks, partly because judge Miller is our alumni and he has so many interesting stories to share with us. The talk made me start to think about the human aspect in how the court rule the matters, and how the judge comes to a decision. I’m also inspired by the hopes that judge Miller mentioned at the end of this talk, about two main things in the society that are awaiting for our generation to solve, which are education and healthcare.