#85: classes ✔️ finals ✔️ next week, graduation
sharing some thoughts on law school
hi hi hi sisters ♡ lets pretend this got sent out yesterday… well I’m officially done with law school classes AND finals. so next step is graduation! i’m excited to have a graduation as I graduated from my undergrad in 2020, and while i had the best personal graduation ceremony that my best friends and sister hosted for me, I’m excited to have an actual graduation.
this week bar study begins though. I am NOT looking forward to it, mainly because I’m worried about my energy levels and having a good stamina every day to study for 8 hours… if anyone has any tips on how to maintain their energy throughout a long day, please lmk!!
sharing my fav substack notes i saw this week !!
I LOVE the mosaics throughout the different subway stations here in new york. truly one of my favorite details of the city.
movies: finallyyyyyyyy got around to seeing sinners, the new ryan coogler movie starring michael b jordan and hailee steinfeld about vampires infiltrate this rural town. and HOLY it did NOT disappoint. the film is beautiful and the music is beyond supreme. its a little scary, but truly nothing extreme. I was able to handle it just fine! and then my friend nick and I watched the incredible hulk. I had never seen it before and while it wasnt the best superhero movie i’ve seen, it wasnt the worst!! I wish there was a hulk movie with mark ruffalo though :/
in my mind: I read the new emily henry book, great big beautiful life, within like 4 days. I LOVE emily henry. I truly think she is one of my favorite authors when it comes to romance books. I thought this one was fun and different because not only did it have a romance story line, it also had another story line of a journalist interviewing an old hollywood star. so you get a history story as well (not that she’s based on anyone in particular, but it still is fun to feel like youre learning about an old celebrity and their origin stories). kinda reminded me of the 7 husbands of evelyn hugo, but still had its emily henry charm. highly recommend. and now that i’ve read all of emily henry’s books, here my updated ranking: 1) happy place, 2) funny story, 3) great big beautiful life, 4) book lovers, 5) people we meet on vacation, and 6) beach read. whats yours?
and just like that, my three year journey of law school classes, finals, and projects, has all come to an end. while graduation is still next week, I thought I would take some time today to reflect on law school and talk about what I liked and hated about my law school experience, because it truly was so different than how I thought it would be.
when I first thought of going to law school I thought that I would be deeply interested in every single class I was taking. for some reason I had the expectation that it was going to be similar to how it is during your undergrad when you take classes that are for your major and you are just so interested in the subjects you are learning about compared to when you had to take the required classes you didnt care about. its because of some of my classes i took for my major (health systems and policies, health advocacy, and womens health issues) that i thought about law school as a possibility to begin with. well that wasnt the case for law school classes… I found most of them to be very dense and boring, and not in the sense that I am in the 4th grade with ADHD and am intellectually beyond what i’m learning in my class so I am therefore bored. no- I found some of these classes to be truly SO BORING. and thats okay. the law can be really boring sometimes. there were many classes I enjoyed and found to be quite interesting and some to be boring. but I was not anticipating being bored in law school
coming from BYU, feeling like a raging liberal, I thought that I would be among peers who thought the same exact way as me. that was not the case. there have been so many times when I felt like a republican amongst my classmates. and I know I am not alone in feeling this way. many of the friends I made in law school also felt this way, because the ones who were deeply passionate about their ideals were also the loudest at times. it was just funny to feel the opposite of how I felt at BYU.
it was extremely hard being in school when all of my friends were not. I would come home from classes and always have in the back of my mind a list of things I should be doing but none of my friends had that same worry about work (except you miranda, my busy lawyer). for the most part I feel like I figured out how to balance school work and social life, but it was a different experience than when I was in undergrad and all o my friends were in classes as well.
that being said, I maybe regret not becoming better friends with some of my classmates outside of school. for the most part, CUNY is a commuter school. most people don’t move to the city to go to CUNY, a lot of people have already been in New York for some reason or another. and because of that most people had friends of their own outside of school. however, part of me wishes I had put more of an effort in at making better relationships with my classmates. in my final year of law school I feel like I did get around to doing that, but there are some REALLY COOL people that I missed out on getting to know better. and thats a bummer.
and the inverse of that is that i am really glad I dont have to see many of these people again. the law students of CUNY can be soooo dramatic sometimes and make the biggest deal out of thin air, its actually crazy !!! IYKYK
however, I am very grateful for my time that I have had in law school. while I don’t know what I am doing with my life once I move to San Francisco, I do feel better equipped for almost any job I could possibly take on. knowing the law and how it operates is powerful. its actually crazy that basics of law classes arent taught, because the law controls everything. contracts are part of day to day life. the constitution regulates all that we do. when we die, the law comes into play. when we get married, or divorced, the law plays a huge factor. literally every aspect of our lives is dictated by the law in some way shape or form. so I feel quite lucky to understand it even a little bit better than I did before.
and to CUNY, PEACE OUT M’FER
tiktok: big moment in timothee chalamet’s history
pinterest: okay but why didn’t I think of this picture; gold medals baby; the little smirk !!!
instagram: the BEST look from the met; talk about a spring stoop; do I do this to my laces?
love you all so much! if anyone ever has any questions about law school, literally please just ask me!! I might convince you NOT to do it, but maybe i’ll convince you to do it hehe
happy to have met you here <3 <3 <3