This past week I bought a copy of The Paper Chase for $9.98 from Amazon.com. The movie is similar to Scott Turow's book 1L in that it tells the story of student struggling through his 1L year at Harvard Law School. Hours and hours of studying, Professors that humiliate their unwitting students, and hordes of super intelligent students.
That is not my experience. I read 1L before law school and it scared the crap out of me. After a month, I'm not scared. I kept waiting for things to get crazy. I kept waiting for our professors to make someone cry. I kept waiting to struggle for hours and hours with abstract legal concepts. I also expected my fellow students to be a little more astute. None of the above has occurred. This is not to say that law school is easy. It certainly is not. It is also not to say that I'm any smarter than my classmates. Its more that I was hoping they'd be smarter than me.
I have been taking Saturday's off. I don't go to the library on Saturday. I didn't crack a book on Saturday. The only difference between this saturady and all my undergraduate Saturday's is that I feel guilty. As time passes on Saturday I feel legal studying opportunities fading past me. Should I study? Are my classmates ahead of me. What did I miss, am I falling behind? Ahhh.
Maybe I'll study next Saturday.
9/23/2007
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