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[quote=Anonymous]I'm really just looking to see if other people had the same experiences in law school as I'm having (currently a 3L). I regularly post/read/lurk on popular law student message boards like TLS and sometimes even JDU if I want to depress myself for some reason, but you aren't anonymous on those boards like you are here. I'm one of the people who actually really like the academic side of law school, despite a hellish 1L experience, and have a legal job lined up after graduation. But I hate the people. Although I'm on the introverted side, I usually love people and even managed to be quite socially successful on my own terms in high school, despite high school having much the same atmosphere as law school. College was an amazing experience, socially. I always found it easy to like people, or to think kindly of them at least. And then I came to law school, and shut down. I think the tightly knit cliques formed within the first 2 weeks. Luckily I found 2 friends and we really bonded because everyone bonds during 1L. But I hated going to bar reviews every week and pretending to enjoy getting trashed with horribly judgy snooty unfriendly people. It is possible for me to be superficially nice and some of them are superficially nice right back, but I have never seen such mass-produced coldness as I did during the past 2 years here. How do they all party with each other and act like they all love each other? Many of them seem to genuinely love each other and I can't understand why. There is plenty of back-biting and bitchiness and cheating and incestuous dating and some really high-strung, emotionally unstable personalities here. And these same emotionally unstable, cold bitches seem to be VERY popular. Wait, does it sound like I'm in high school? I AM. Never have I felt so socially inept as I do here. It's embarrassing to admit this (which is why I can't talk about this on law school message boards), but my self-confidence plummets when I'm with other law students, because they are just so unfriendly and make you feel uncomfortable. And this is unsettling because it is SUCH an alien experience to me - I'm used to being pretty chill in any social environment. But here it is like constantly going up against a cold wall of ice. I didn't go to the Barrister's Ball even once - I rarely attend bar reviews or law school parties or just any social event centered around our student community, because I hate the people. And it sucks because they genuinely have a lot to offer in terms of intellect and cultivation and just their opinions. I can have good conversations with casual acquaintances every now and then, but it never develops into a friendship. At this point, I'm really wondering what my legal career will be like. I have a Biglaw job offer that I got because a fellow social outcast (an alumnus from my school) took a liking to me, so it looks like I will have to start collecting a social network of other lawyers who hated the typical "law student personality". But many of the people at my firm are narcissists and, in other ways, remind me of my classmates (I summered there these past couple months). Should I just pay my loans off and save up hard for 5-6 years, and then bolt and do something where I can be with nice people? But will I feel like a professional failure? Am I the only person who had this social experience in law school or are there any others?[/quote]
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