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I wish I could describe the white sand beaches, the cabana and the fruity drinks with jaunty umbrellas, but alas, this was not my summer.
My summer was Intern Debutante Season. This was my summer to get The Job.
For me, Intern Debutante Season, went something like this:
1. Insomia.
2. Interviewing.
3. Leave the house at 6:30 a.m., 7:00 a.m. or 7:30 a.m. depending on Item 1.
4. Eat lunch at desk.
5. Return home at 6:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. depending on Item 3.
6. Re-writing one particularly tricky brief about ten times.
7. Researching questions from about five different perspectives.
8. Making recommendations to lawyers who passed the bar when I was in diapers.
9. Insomnia.
10. Never saying no to a project (the effect of this was felt keenly in Items 3 and 5 respectively).
11. Running into classmates at the courthouse and being amused because we’re all acting like lawyers.
12. Really hoping I get the job, but keeping my eye on the job postings at the law school just in case.
I should know in about a month if I have The Job. For now I am staying on as an intern through the school year. It would be nice to have The Job and be able to make actual plans.
So that was my summer. I worked. I learned a lot and genuinely had a good time working with a different mix of lawyers. Today I am sadly stacking my books and getting the laptop bag restocked with necessities. This is my last post in a “tween” category on this blog. Tomorrow the 3L category debuts which will be followed by the bar preparation category in less than a year. Can you believe it? Less than a year.
It’s been quite the summer. This blog has been virtually ignored while I lived the life of a Summer Associate. In just over a week I change back to intern/law student.
Unlike my scheduling triumphs last year, I have a horrid schedule for the fall term. Most of my classes are from late afternoon to early evening except for two days where I have one solitary class in the morning then a loooooong stretch until my remaining classes. Of course, I’ll be at the office during the the stretch, but here’s the rub:
I have to wear a suit to school every day. I’m appalled. I work every day that I take class. There’s no way out of the situation. I already hate it.
To move the pulse of this blog from barely registering to pumpin’, occassionally I will point out a few entries from blogs I read frequently. Hey, it’s a win-win: My blog gets updated and I point readers to other blogs. It’s too beautiful.
Over at Barely Legal, a very important post is up with 20 tips on how not to be a douchebag in law school. These tips should be included in everyone’s orientation package and re-introduced at each registration.
Anonymous Lawyer is wondering if law school is making him a meanie. Yes, ALS it does. It just does. We become more argumentative than before, we always look for debate, and we “spot the issues” relentlessly. Manjackal has long since given up on communicating with me.
Will Work for Favorable Dicta enjoys a contact high with her Barbri flashcards.
Here at Becoming a Jackal, I’m still enjoying my internship and cannot yet grasp that I am expected to return to school. I think the third year should be optional. Seriously. In August, those of us who want to continue working should be given the option to take a bar review course (set up specially for us) and take a Fall bar exam (set up specially for us). No one pays attention the third year anyway. It would save me a third of the cost of law school. Hell, I’m in! Let’s do it!
You are reading the blog of a CALI award winner for legal research and writing.
Do you feel touched by stardust just being here?
Would making a little CALI award winner button for my blog be too much? Would a mention on my banner be overboard?
Yes to all of the above.
I’ll just take my moment in the sun for my only notable achievement in law school.
The answer to my own question, is yes, I must return for my final year of law school. But I am totally with LawMom who would much rather just keep on working in her internship.
I’m at the point where I wish I could take Barbri and just get it over with. I guess this is why all the 3Ls always look so bored. If I get the coveted job offer before I return to school, I will join the legions of the bored.
But, I will make a genuine effort to take advantage of law school without pressure if I have a job lined up. On the other hand, I’ll be watching the clock in class waiting fretting over the fact that class is getting in the way of a project at work!
Oh well, it could suck worse. I could be a 1L.
I really cannot let this blog go dormant the entire summer. I’ll just have to talk about weird stuff, like dogs, the weather, my moods, etc.
The problem is I am officially working as a Summer Associate this year. I can’t blog about work without it feeling creepy. Even if I don’t blog about cases or cloak them, I still feel like someone could come across this blog, read a description of an event, and recognize their own case in spite of my attempts to hide the “real” case. That would be horrific. Now, I know the chances are about one one-thousandth of a percent that such a discovery would occur, but believe me, if it could happen to someone, it would happen to me!
And I can’t blog about my co-workers. I’m not going to trash my chances of a permanent position by getting caught saying something not-so-nice about a co-worker online. Saying nice things about co-workers is generally pretty boring, so why blog it. Thus,office gossip and general bitchiness is off limits here.
This conundrum will come again after I take the bar. I’ll have to come up with some reason to keep this blog going, or it will have to become simply a journal of law school and the bar exam.
Of course, I could tube the bar exam then the blog will live even longer! Perish the thought.
