What Law School is Like

Before lawschool, mostly everything turns out to be a joke. Seemingly impossible situations are usually exaggerated. When I receive a 6 page exam, usually it turns out to be a mistake. The pages are miscounted. When I encounter a question that wasn't discussed in class, it's usually given as a bonus. I always find a way to ecscape the unreasonable. I can easily turn my back on things that seemed unfair. It's so easy to ignore people who proceeds from a different perspective.

Lawschool teaches frustration. Being a student, I've encountered impossible tasks that seemed unreal. It's pointless to waste energy on things that will not change at all. Face it now or face it later anyway. There is no other way around it. Yes, it's that frustrating. I don't know if there's a word for it. But have you ever been in a situation where you just couldn't believe that something is happening? You start to ask yourself it it's even real. It sounds exactly like a practical joke. 

But in lawschool, everything is possible. Everything can happen, and you will be in a position where you don't have a way out. No one will come into the room and tell you, "Oh correction on this or that." or "Oh, bonus points for this or that." You will have to find a way to make impossible possible. And it will make you feel invincible. 

That could easily turn you into someone else. Lawschool would seem to you like a parallel universe, existing in a different dimension, unable to integrate into ordinary. But every night you go back to the ordinary, like an on and off switch, and all of a sudden everything that felt normal would be your new frustration. Why isn't anyone speaking up for themselves? Why is everyone ok with blending in? Why is everyone always complaining? Why is everyone so self-conceited? So in the end you are forced to face two versions of frustrations. And you got to keep yourself in the middle, careful not to tilt the other end of the scale. If you side with Lawschool, there is tyranny. If you side with the ordinary, there is democracy. If you side with Lawschool, you are a know it all. If you side with the ordinary, you are a fool.