Law school.

Law school is a blast but I am entitled to whine...

"ugh. Why is this dissent longer than the majority opinion??" This demonstrates a micro-form of the need to let go of certain expectations in law school. Just as I thought I almost got through this last case for Monday's class reading, you hit a wall of freaking dissent nobody cares about but you still have to read on the off chance that you get cold called (1/60) and that the professor will ask you about the dissent (1/10) = 1/600. No wonder lawyers have a reputation for being bad at math and ridiculously risk averse. Anyway, in law school, hope & complacency lead to misery. You think you'll finish the reading super fast because it's only a few pages, and couple hours later, you are not drawing and you are not done. You think this case will be easy to read and it's excruciating. You think you'll finish your memo quickly and get caught up on studying and the memo takes the whole weekend. When I decided, "umm.. yea. there's no way I am going to be caught up on everything," I felt soo much better and started to enjoy law school like A LOT. Because other than reality not matching my totally unfounded expectations, the classes are really interesting, and there are some great people here to nerd with.

Law school = a lesson in engaging rather than controlling and umm... drawing anyway. by choice. when there's NO TIME (AHHHH). And it means more.