I would like to take a moment to reflect on Law School. It struck me this morning that the main reason that law school is not very pleasant is the fact that the whole place is filled with bad karma. If you know me then I am sure I have explained my philosophy that lawyers and law students are, "a bunch of paranoid bastards." If you have ever heard me talking about this before I should not need to put too much explanation into the fact that literally the actual physical law school building is just oozing with bad karma.
On the one hand there are the insane professors and the ruthlessly competitive law review types, ready to stab you in the back without the slightest premeditation. Even the subject matter is such that you begin to question the most basic decency of the human race. Law suits are around every corner and inherent in almost every area of commerce that touches your life on a daily basis. Do not even get me started on the criminal stuff.
On the other hand, one key source of all this bad karma, aside from the aforementioned stuff, is that all of the negative by-products of each law students experience is being squeezed into one fairly small air conditioned concrete box. This morning alone in the the course of the first hour I spent at school I saw a girl crying in the library woefully saying to a friend trying to console her, "I can't do moot court without him! I can't do this all alone!" While only seconds later I heard a recent graduate complaining to his girlfriend in the computer lab, "5,000 people sat for the bar in Oklahoma! Shit. Wait, let me check Rhode Island. Sonofabitch."
People- it's not even exams yet.
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