Three-L

I think I am enjoying school right now more than I have since my One-L year. As much as the One-L year was stressful, it was also new, so my interest remained piqued a lot of the time. My motivation over the next three semesters progressively dwindled. Because of a combination of actually working in the legal field and getting better at learning exactly what I needed to learn to do well on the exams, much of the reading seemed superfluous and the classes painfully uninteresting compared to court. This semester, my attitude is a bit different. I don't know if is the fact that I only have four classes and only on two days a week, or if I am enjoying the specific classes that I have, or if the thought of the bar exam and finding a job is so daunting that being in school does not seem so bad. I think it is the latter. I realized that it might be a long time before I get to be in a seminar political theory with 4 other students and an expert in the field and have a conversation for two hours a week. There will never be a job where ethical issues are presented like interesting problems to puzzle over as they are in my professional responsibility. And there will never be a trial like the one I am preparing for in trial clinic class where no one has to pay any money or go to jail at the end. After twenty years of schooling, the real world has to come at some point, and, honestly, I do look forward to the responsibility of having a real job as a real lawyer with real consequences, but I sure am going to enjoy the time I have left in school while it lasts.