Did anyone else hate law school?
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Anonymous
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If you found absolutely nothing whatsoever to dislike about law school, you were doing it wrong.
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Anonymous
| OP, I agree with everything you said. My law school experience was terrible. Be careful which firm you choose. Big Law life is almost as bad... |
Anonymous
| As a 2L, there aren't words for how much I detest law school. It has caused me to become completely socially withdrawn, which I credit primarily to the Socratic method. If I weren't this far in, I would drop and run. |
Anonymous
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Before law school, I was very socially confident. I knew people liked me and I knew I could make friends.
I am a 2L and I feel like that geeky uncool outcast that nobody wants to talk to. People here are HARD to befriend, much harder than anyone in college. People are fake. It has done a number on my confidence. I am like the PP - socially withdrawn. |
Anonymous
| I hated law school--people drank like they'd never seen alcohol before, people were really snobby and cliquey, etc. It was like being in high school again. I made a few close friends, but overall the social environment was not my speed at all. However, I now work for the government and it's great. |
Anonymous
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Hated it. Honestly, I enjoy working as an attorney more, but you should just be prepared that big law is basically the awfulness of law school without the time for drinking.
-Signed happy lawyer. |
Anonymous
I have a cousin who thrived at a top law school but hated practicing law at a big firm. She's extremely bright but hates to work so she's moved onto government law where I'm sure she'll be a super star. OP- maybe you'll be the opposite. |
Anonymous
This post describes what I'm going through right now. Sorry to revive a dead thread, this came up on a google search I did while brooding over how much I hate law school. I don't know how everyone else here is bestirs with everyone else. Feel like this PP. |
Anonymous
I have been out of law school for 25 years and still remember it as some of the worst years of my life. It was so very stressful and I, too, found the people fake and cut throat. But, the one piece of advice I can give you, PP, is this too shall pass. You will look back and wonder how you got through but you will get through and be fine. I am now a successful in-house counsel to a company of 2000 people with revenue of $400m. You will be fine. |
Anonymous
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Sorry to revive a dead thread. But like the post above ^, i also found this during a quick google of my hatred for the people in law, and thought id share my experience.
I had much the same experience as the OP. I went to a small law school. Long story short, if you didnt become a part of the cliques within the first month of 1st year, or didnt drink 3 times a week, you would never expect anyone to ever talk to you if you didnt say something first. The student body(granted with some exceptions) was just as much douche-baggery as your average College level crowd. The kicker is all the students like to act so progressive, tolerant, and inclusive, but in reality they are as shallow and ignorant as any jerk off the street. Like I said, since I didnt get wasted 3 times a week, I may as well have been invisible. Someone could sit right beside me in class and you bet your ass they would completely ignore my presence. Never even a friendly "hey hows it going" or anything. While I am also an introverted person, I also do enjoy people and I have always had good friends to my name. Undergrad was more difficult and I never really made any longterm "friends". Unfortunately that stretched into law school. Luckily I made 2 or 3 decent friends, and a couple of acquaintances that I could chat with or go for a smoke with and such. But outside of that, I hated every fake face I saw. If you're a bitch and act like a bitch, then whatever. But when you're just another stuck up cliquey exclusive douche who thinks you're better than the next person cause you're willing to drink 3 times a week and make a FB post on the group page 20 times a day to remind the world you exist, but pretend you're a friendly inclusive person willing to have a good time with anyone... then go fuck yourself. Sorry for the rant. Im glad to see there are other people out there who recognized the ridiculousness of some of these experiences. I do have a job lined up (graduate in couple weeks here), and I am looking forward to it. I am a friendly person and I can bullshit and have fun (although I'd be lying if I said i wasnt nervous). But jeeze, I will never miss anyone from law school. I couldn't care less what happens to them after graduation. Good luck to anyone else having the same experience. If you gotta be a bit of a loner for awhile, so be it. Like I said, I had a couple buds that helped the run, and also my girlfriend. It helps, but Id by lying if I said it never got to me over the years. It's too bad making friends has to be so difficult considering we are surrounded by the same people for 3 years. |
Anonymous
Many people hate law school. You will find that there are things better about post-school life and things that are worse. The best part is most people don't give a hoot about the popularity contest anymore. There are many careers out there, and not all involve a repat of that law school social environment. |
Anonymous
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I really like law school. I went to a big school, so almost anyone could find a group of friends. It was in a city with lots of activities and lots of students, so my social life was pretty good. Exam time sucked, but since that was your whole grade, the rest of the semester was reasonably stress free if you could compartmentalize what mattered and what didn't, ie realizing on the off chance you got cold called on and your answer was only ok, it didn't matter. (I was prepared enough I could always give a decent enough answer and I ultimately did well when it mattered.)
Overall I had a good social life, way more free time than when I graduated, and it was in some ways an extension of college, although not as enjoyable. |
Anonymous
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I liked law school. It was hard work and stressful at times. But I wasn't looking for it to provide my social life. I didn't go to law school straight out of college, and I went to a law school in the large city where I had already been working. I would say that at least half of my class and lives, friends, spouses, etc outside the stunned body, and didn't need to be buddy, body with the other students. That is not to say I didn't make any friends. I had a couple of close friends that I made during the three years, and many more people that I could hang out with and chat at parties. And there we also some jerks.
It may seem all consuming now, but really it is only three years. You should worry more about what kind of job you get, and whether that lifestyle is bearable. I found law school(at a top 5 school) to be much better than working at a big firm. Big form work was soul-sucking. |
Anonymous
| I didn't hate it but also didn't love it. Some of the classes were more interesting than others. I enjoyed doing the clinics and moot court. The people were nice enough for the most part- I didn't go to a very top school, though (just outside the top 20). No one was all that cut throat. |
Anonymous
| I found the social scene at my top-20 law scho to be weird. It was like everyone had never been cool before and suddenly thought they were cool. I also just hated law school. I thought it was super boring. Firm life was no better, and I worried for a while I'd made a huge, expensive mistake. But then I switched to government work I was passionate about, and lived happily ever after. You just need to find your tribe. They're out there. |