Status Updates From One L: The Turbulent True S...

i hate this book so much

i’m never thrilled about assigned reading because i hate feeling forced to read rather than having a choice in it. but of all the books i’ve read for school, this has to be the worst one. i didn’t know it could take me so long to read 300 pages. 🫩

…an effort to regard the place more realistically, to keep myself from looping into either ecstasy or despair as I meet up with the diverse range of what is offered. And the arrogance…is one of the things I am most eager to escape. It makes the environment even more claustrophobic and consuming and leaves me grateful for whatever few reminders I get that…the law school are not really the center of the universe.

Amid the adversities of the first year, we have all been particularly susceptible to this kind of thinking…It must be special, you tell yourself, why else, in God's name, am I going through this?