Feb 012006
I’ve been observing my sister adapt to the rigors of law school and i’m reminded of my own period of adjustment that I experienced as a 1L. I definitely don’t mean to sound like a braggart, but college was relatively easy for me. I never studied very hard and yet I still graduated magna cum laude. I’ll admit that I probably benefited from some grade inflation, but I had cultivated this image of myself as a talented and diligent student. After my first year of law school, that image was demolished. I wasn’t the smartest kid in class any more, not even close, and that took some getting used to. In retrospect, that experience did me some good. It taught me that not everything was supposed to be easy and that I needed to get over myself already.
Funny thing, though: During exams one semester, I had a problem with the student scribe who was assigned to write my exam for me. I ended up dictating my exam to the dean of students and earned one of the best grades I ever received in law school. I attribute my exceptional performance to the fact that I didn’t want the dean to think I was a total dumbass as she was transcribing my answer.
