The best three days of your law school career:

1. The day of your last final exam 1L year. This is super sweet for obvious reasons.

2. The first day of your 2L year. This is unexpectedly sweet, as you arrive on campus, look around and realize "I am not a 1L." Damn it feels good.

3. The first day of your 1L year. Because after all the pain & suffering of the admissions process, it's fun to actually show up and enjoy your new status. A short-lived pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless.

The worst day of your law school career:

1. The first day of 3L. Which was today. 3L is reputed to be a drag. Is that a self-fulfilling prophecy? Or is it really, actually, substantively, intrinsically a drag?

I expect it'll get better. But it gave me the same feeling I have when I go to a sequel of a movie and realize in the first few minutes it's just going to be a rehash of the first one. Which, depending on the movie, may or may not be a good thing.

21 Aug 06