THE DAILY ILLINI — Lauren Aronson walks through the double glass doors of the Immigration Law Clinic. In her hands, she holds a tea cup and eight files, bursting at the seams with sheets of paper. As she walks, she distributes the files, handing certain ones to students she passes on the way to her office and picking up new ones along the way. Now holding nine files, she arrives at her office, takes a deep breath and prepares to start another day. Aronson is a professor in the College of Law and the director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University. The clinic helps those who are in the country without documentation find legal services and also offers hands-on experience for students interested in immigration law. Despite her passion for her profession today, Aronson shares that in the past she avoided immigration law. “I actually stayed really far away from immigration law while I was in law school because I thought it would be too sad, too hard of an area,” Aronson said. After graduating from the University of Virginia with her law degree, Aronson left school with the feeling that she had made a mistake in attending law school. She said her first job in law came from needing to pay off her student loans.