I don't think I've ever wanted wanted to start a school year less. I loved my four years at Wake, and always looked forward to a new year there. First year of law school was new and exciting (at first). Second year of law school I had my new apartment to look forward to. Third year? I got nothing. The fact that my blessed three month escape from lectures, homework, and studying ended a week premature doesn't help.
I'm ready for the whole thing to be over. In many respects, I wish I could just sleep walk through the next nine months. See, a JD is nothing more than a permission slip to take the bar exam, which is what I should spend the next year studying, not some token elective I only signed up for because it fit my schedule.
Post-JD and bar exam, I'd like to find an apartment in Winston-Salem and get a junior associate gig at some personal injury law firm in town, practicing nothing but social security since you don't need to pass the bar to practice there (both partners at my summer firm failed the first time, so I'm not just being modest in thinking I'll do the same thing).
I just hate the fact I have to sit through two more semesters of lectures, textbooks, and outlines to get to that ideal - having an actual job, living in a town with actual friends, - you know, a normal life.
/typical privileged white-boy rant
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It's true, I'm with you. I just want to get out there and start doing something productive. Law school is just a barrier to entry, it really doesn't teach you much.
I've got a clinic that might let me argue in front of the 8th Circuit, so I'm pumped about that.
You know, I wonder if there's a Court of Appeals with speedy decision times. They could call it... the Short Circuit!
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