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September 25, 2005
Enjoying law school even if you don't want to be a a lawyer
Recent Harvard grad Jeremy Blachman posts a draft of a potential piece he was working on for publication in a newspaper about enjoying law school even if you don't want to be a lawyer. The whole thing is certainly worth reading, but Jeremy concludes with the following three tips:
How to enjoy law school, according to me:
1. Take classes from the best professors you can find, no matter what they’re teaching. (And get to know them. My one regret is that I didn’t try harder to do that.)
2. Join every extracurricular activity that sounds interesting to you, and even some that don’t. Lots of smart people do lots of cool things that don’t involve casebooks.
3. Don’t worry about it. You’re smart, you’ll do fine, you’ll graduate. Don’t stress.
Seems like good advice to me. He also has an alternate version of the piece here. Of course, if you're sure you don't want to be a lawyer, you might want to avoid taking on a lot of debt just to take classes from good profs, enjoy a bunch of extracurriculars, and not worry about graduating. There are a lot of better things you can do with your three years and $150k if you're pretty certain you're never going to use that J.D. I mean, how much does it cost to climb Mt. Everest?
Posted by mowabb at September 25, 2005 09:46 PM
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From the Department of Answering Rhetorical Questions: According to this, about $55 large (less gear) for a full-service guided Everest climb. Heck, you could go 3 times for the cost of a law degree from a top school!
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