The Septimus Notes

Thursday, May 22, 2008

|For the sad among you who are still tuning in...|

I just finished my second year of law school. Contrary to popular belief, I found the 2nd year to be significantly harder than the 1st year. But that was in keeping with what I've personally always said ("always" being only for the past 2 academic years: that law school is as hard as you make it). When I entered law school, I had intentionally accepted that I would not be at the top of the class so as that I could just enjoy the experience. I had the privilege of submitting myself to such mediocrity because of my membership in a special program at my school that would help me to get a great summer job as a 1L almost regardless of how well I did (well, with the assumption that at the very least I didn't fuck up entirely).

At the end of the 2L job hunt, I'd decided to go back to the firm I worked at as a 1L summer associate. But then events happened (if I've already described them in this forum you can go back and read and if I haven't, I don't feel like dwelling too much on the past) that made me reconsider that idea. So, with the possibility of interviewing as a 3L having appeared, I decided to reinvest myself in the possibility of doing well in law school, grade-wise. So I worked... and worked... and worked the Fall semester. And my grades reflect that effort. Yay! But I was exhausted going into the Spring semester. Combine that with getting super sick and taking courses that sounded great going in but proved to be painfully uninteresting, and the Spring final exam period was mostly an exercise in mitigating damages. Pun intended.

But I made it through. I think. Grades are still TBA. And now I'm at my firm's Paris office. Sans too much work to do, I'm going to be making occasioned occasional commentary on my observations of Paris and France generally. Or, once again, of being a Summer Associate. Or on whatever 'cause it's my blog and for the time being, at least, I'm feeling revitalized about updating it. And I'll cry if I want to.

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 08:08.
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