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December 1, 2006
Mentoring time
What you're looking at is the backside of a 1L who stuck around after class today. Today is not only the first real snow day of the year, but also the last Friday before the reading period starts. If it isn't abundantly clear, she's stuffing envelopes to law firms because she has the following misconceptions:
1) As a 1L, you can get a firm job if you send out enough resumes;
2) Those resumes have to be postmarked on the first day you're allowed to send them;
3) Doing all of this in the most central location of your law school will impress on your peers how diligent you are;
4) If your peers think you are a diligent resume-sender, they will do something other than snicker at you behind your back.
Lord knows I've been there, but at least I had the class to do it home with the help of cold beer and television. In retrospect, I shouldn't have worried about it as much as I did. In retrospect, a lot of people told me not to worry about it, but I didn't listen. Still, I have to say it: envelope-stuffer, I need to give you some straight-up, honest-to-goodness, no-BS truth here. The odds are very very high that you will not get a paid biglaw firm job this summer. If you do, it won't be because all of your envelopes bear a December 1 postmark. Even if you do bother to do the mail merge, do it at home.
Nobody likes a gunner.
Posted by rj3 at December 1, 2006 2:20 PM
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I have to say I'm so glad you went through that misery last year so I don't think I have to. Thanks. :-)
Posted by: PL at December 2, 2006 9:12 AM
Nobody likes a bitter, jaded 2L either. :-P
In any case, if the 1L in the picture is who I think it is, I'm pretty sure if anyone gets a firm job, it'll be her.
Posted by: Jim Beam at December 2, 2006 12:14 PM
My printer broke last year on December 1, so mine didn't go out until December 2. The guy at the post office over there by school actually said to me when I came in, "Girl, don't you know those were supposed to go out yesterday?" He then proceeded to mock the number I was sending, telling me that everyone else sent more.
I think he derived pleasure from making me even more neurotic.
Posted by: KB at December 2, 2006 3:34 PM
