Although I handed in my last final a few days ago, I haven't felt as if the semester ended until today, when all the stragglers turn in papers and take finals. None of my friends finished until yesterday, so I've been in semi-limbo, idle but bored. Now, it's finally over.
Some things I learned during 2L year:
- Dating in law school is generally a bad idea, but it's the best option available if you don't know anyone else in town;
- Some junk about the Copperweld doctrine;
- The location of every bar in the American Airlines terminal at O'Hare;
- Only masochists enjoy working for a journal;
- Don't mentor 1Ls. Anonymously mock them;
- People love those Eastern Motors ads;
- Four below zero is survivable, but it puts a damper on the post-Super Bowl looting. I really wanted a flat-screen TV, but I'll have to wait until I can actually pay for one;
- Middle America does Thanksgiving right;
- You know when you say a word over and over again until the syllables start running into each other and it loses all meaning? Law firm interviewers have permanently done this to the word "collegiality.";
- Evidence sucks. There's no getting around it;
- Just leave the listserv alone.
Well, at least your interviewers don't use the word "community" like all the other ones!