Reply to Did anyone else hate law school?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Did anyone else hate law school?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I don't know how old this post is, but I remember looking at this post in the first year of law school. Everything that the OP said had hit too much to home for me. I was extremely miserable in law school. I had only one friend who I rarely saw, and because the cliques formed quickly it didn't take long for me to realize that I was going to be deemed the socially awkward girl in law school for the rest of the three years ....and I was.

Unlike the OP who actually is an introvert, I am both an introvert and a sufferer of social anxiety. I had been a loner most of my life, but I was able to get away with it because the schools were really big and nobody seemed to notice me. My law school was pretty much the "everyone knows everyone" kind of law school and it was HARD. I remember coming home from school crying because of how alone I was.  My grades weren't all that great either. Nobody in my family is truly familiar with reading cases, or law school work. I had abysmal grades first year, but my grades steadily improved after serious tutoring and encouraging from my family. Law was never my choice. I never wanted to be a lawyer but I was pressured into doing this profession. I really wish I had branched somewhere in to the medical field.  Not a Doctor but maybe a nurse. That would have been nice.

Many of the students in my law school first year seemed like they were trying to hard to fit in but maybe just me being pessimistic. I am not one to approach people or start casual conversation. but yes, of all the things I did in law school, it was the people I hated first, then the subject.  When I went to college, I regained the self confidence that I had lost severely after high school, then when I got out of college and was pressured into going into to law school, I never really lost my self confidence, I was just really depressed an felt very alone. I had never felt as socially awkward as I did in law school.

Just glad to be done with that foolishness. I will NEVER let anyone who suffers from the type of social anxiety that I suffer from to go to law school. NOT RECOMMENDED. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics