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Thursday, October 27, 2005
We'll be glad when the weekend gets here
It's been a trying week for people in my law school circle. Some have entertained thoughts of dropping out, one person was robbed (learn a lesson from him, back up your work and notes, because losing your laptop is bad news), and all of us have a big legal writing assignment due. Me, I'm not planning on dropping out, and I'm not worried about failing, but I really want an A in this class, and I really don't know how my paper will be received. We're obsessing over nitpicky language in five cases, and trying to squeeze the kind of meaning we want out of them. When I told the prof that I really didn't see how one of the cases was supposed to support what he wanted us to make it support, he said "welcome to being a lawyer."
When another prof is pushed to explain a tricky or illogical-seeming point, he says "well, that's why they'll be paying you the big bucks." To deal with the fact that there are no straight answers I suppose. As one of my friends put it, "I feel like I'm learning to be less confident, rather than more confident in my ideas, which is the opposite of what I thought law school would do."
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About your less confident friend: I completely sympathesize. I feel that as I've developed in my career, I've become less confident and cautious in my abilities. I think this happens to a lot of people--once you get burned in a bad situation with a client (or, in your instance, a case), you constantly gut-check moving forward. I don't like this feeling.
If you go through law school and not once entertain the idea of dropping out, YOU ARE NOT HUMAN, GO BACK TO YOUR MOTHER PLANET!
People always say that when you graduate from law school you should be able to successfully argue that an elephant is a rabbit!
Hang in there. It was legal writing that almost broke me. One day first semester I went home and cried myself to sleep. Shhh, don't tell anyone!
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People always say that when you graduate from law school you should be able to successfully argue that an elephant is a rabbit!
Hang in there. It was legal writing that almost broke me. One day first semester I went home and cried myself to sleep. Shhh, don't tell anyone!
