My negative energy towards law review paid off: I didn't make it. I congratulate everyone who did. Having participated in the competition, I can fully appreciate the depth of your mad legal skillz. You are supremely bad-ass.

As we enter the final week of classes in 1L I find it harder to take law school seriously. For me, the work this year has been reasonable and not especially difficult. What has been tiring is the institutional sense of regimentation and hierarchy that you're asked to buy into on a daily basis.

I'm not griping. I find it more comical than annoying. I mean, the stakes are really quite low aren't they. Even the person who graduates last in the class is still a UCLA-educated attorney, and has career and earning opportunities that put them in the 99.99th percentile of Americans. Sometimes it can be hard to get excited about competing to be in the 99.999th percentile.

20 Apr 05