Growing up, Emma Conde Waddoups always had two life plans: one if she got married and one if she didn’t. But when she met her then-boyfriend at 21, she found herself navigating big life decisions sooner than she anticipated. She wanted to go to law school and committing to a relationship meant narrowing her law school choices to Utah.

Now 23, Waddoups got married in May and is about to begin her final year at Brigham Young University, where she’s studying political science. As she looks ahead, she’s thinking about the next milestones — law school, starting a career as a public defender, buying a house and having children. Her husband, also an undergraduate student, still has three years in school before he graduates, and she estimates it’ll be five years before she applies for her first l

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