Postby $$$$$$ » Sun May 06, 2012 1:11 am
Law School academically has been meh. Honestly, the whole exam process blows and after 1L it not only blows, but gets extremely repetitive and boring. You literally prepare the exact same way for every class (read - take notes) and every test is the same shit. Also, I go to a school where most people have firm jobs. If you don't have one and you wanted one, good luck staying happy as you see all your classmates talking about their firms and stuff they are going to buy with the money they make. Someone said its like middle school for type A adults...that seems about right.
On the flip side, I really like a lot of the people here. It is pretty cool to think that some of my friends are going to be future AUSAs or judges or COA clerks. If you work hard and get an SA (or find something you really want to do other than that), law school seems pretty amazing, like undergrad with a six figure job (or a job you'll love) at the end of the tunnel.
That being said, i don't know if law school was for me at the time I went. I wish I had taken more time off to travel, eat, drink, self-actualize, etc. Too bad I realized that about 2 weeks before coming to school. At the end of the day though, hindsight is 20/20. It has made me work harder than ever before and I learned for the first time that I can't just waltz through life and expect to be better than everyone. That being said, if I was going to work my ass off, i'd have rather been doing financial math or hard sciences than law.