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The 5 Types of People You Meet At Law School
Ah, law school, I remember it well. I remember how excited I was to receive my acceptance letter. I was honoured to have been chosen as, according to your brochure, “one of the 80 students accepted each year out of over 10,000 applicants.” I was officially among the best and brightest — yay me!
Then I showed up. It didn’t take me long to question both your brochure and the veracity of the claims therein (see what I did there?). Were these really the best and brightest? Because if these were the best 80 applicants, I’d love to have seen some of the worst.
Aside from the instruction and the actual academics, law school itself, as it turns out, was essentially a giant kindergarten, but with lots of alcohol (and other substances) and well, the books were bigger and had no pictures. Even the people were pretty much the same. So grab a juice box, and I’ll tell you about the 5 types of people you’ll encounter at the ivy-covered big kid kindergarten: (Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability: the descriptions below are not intended to depict any specific individual and are employed as generalizations and for humorous purposes based on the author’s experiences. By continued reading, you acknowledge and affirm that in the event you should recognize…
