Poll: How did you spend your 1L summer? Forum

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How did you spent your 1L summer?

SA at a law firm
24
25%
Clerk for judge
14
15%
Clerk/intern for politician
2
2%
Intern at a company
5
5%
Intern at gov't agency
25
26%
Research assistant at law school
7
7%
Other legal job
12
13%
Non-legal job (just trying to earn $$)
2
2%
Summer classes
3
3%
No job at all
2
2%
 
Total votes: 96

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jbagelboy

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Re: Poll: How did you spend your 1L summer?

Post by jbagelboy » Sat May 03, 2014 3:34 am

IAFG wrote:Internship for credit + night classes = graduated a semester early.
did you start at your firm early too, or just have a super long bar trip?

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IAFG

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Re: Poll: How did you spend your 1L summer?

Post by IAFG » Sat May 03, 2014 1:29 pm

jbagelboy wrote:
IAFG wrote:Internship for credit + night classes = graduated a semester early.
did you start at your firm early too, or just have a super long bar trip?
I had a baby

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rinkrat19

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Re: Poll: How did you spend your 1L summer?

Post by rinkrat19 » Sat May 03, 2014 1:32 pm

Dafaq wrote:Whenever I see the word “intern” I think it no $.... is that the case here?
Not always. There are paid internships.

My govt internship was minimally paid, but I turned down the money so I could get credit (and the COL loan was more money than I would have made).

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sd5289

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Re: Poll: How did you spend your 1L summer?

Post by sd5289 » Sat May 03, 2014 9:38 pm

rinkrat19 wrote:
Dafaq wrote:Whenever I see the word “intern” I think it no $.... is that the case here?
Not always. There are paid internships.
Which is what I did. State level Gov't intern.

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