Disorientation in Law School
Survive law school. Become a Lawyer for the People.
To the incoming 1L class everywhere, here are six things you can do to resist:
Stay off the academic treadmill. Don’t overestimate the power of grades.
Keep politically active. Find a way to engage your energies outside of the confines of the law school curriculum.
Work with friends in your small section to break open a classroom discussion from time to time.
Early on, inoculate yourself against feeling jealous toward the classmates who are headed toward $100,000-plus a year positions straight out of law school. Even though years of banal workaholic drudgery await them, these students are the pride of each institution.
Try to keep up a life outside of school. Don’t lose your old friends, forget to read a novel from time to time, or abandon your swimming regime.
Fight the power! Don’t accept law school as it is. You can derive great strength from challenging practices that ought to be changed.
