Firms certainly act quickly. I got my first call-back today, from a large top 10 firm that I interviewed with yesterday. I had two very good interviews with two different branches, one with a young perky middle-eastern associate, and another one with an older, more formal, white partner. Both were nice and friendly and seemed to like me. I liked them a lot too, and was hoping that they would call me back. Yay!
Thus far, I have had interviews with six firms in total, and this is the only one that has called me back. I wonder whether other people's ratios are better. One of the advantages of having 28 interviews, of course, is that it's really hard to care about any one of them. Quite a few of my interviewers also seem to have deficient (to say the least) personalities. One of the interviews today never smiled once. He was distant and cold and utterly uninterested, which makes the line "our firm is not as stiff and starchy as the other firms" (delivered in a monotone) really not that believable.
But, the first call-back! Hopefually there are a lot more coming...
9/27/2006
9/26/2006
Three Hours of Sleep
What I did today on 3 hours of sleep..
- went to all 3 classes, including the 8:45 comparative con law, and made comments in two.
- wrote a 2-page reaction paper for health care law workshop, arguing, in all seriousness, that even if a legal system is neither accurate nor efficient, it might still need no reform.
- finished 20 pages of reading for local government law.
- went to two firm interviews, and did okay at them.
- only had one meal.
- accepted one research assistantship.
- researched in the library for Professor KM for an hour.
Now I am home, it's 9, and I'm ready to go to bed!
- went to all 3 classes, including the 8:45 comparative con law, and made comments in two.
- wrote a 2-page reaction paper for health care law workshop, arguing, in all seriousness, that even if a legal system is neither accurate nor efficient, it might still need no reform.
- finished 20 pages of reading for local government law.
- went to two firm interviews, and did okay at them.
- only had one meal.
- accepted one research assistantship.
- researched in the library for Professor KM for an hour.
Now I am home, it's 9, and I'm ready to go to bed!
9/24/2006
Thoughts for Myself
Things always look different when I take an ambien. The sleepiness always takes a bit of time to set in, which is fine. But before you become sleepy, you notice other things changing too. For instance, when I look into the mirror, I think I see a slightly different me. The difference is hard to put my finger on, but it has something to do with the strange skin tone - I see to look much darker than I'm used to. My expressions are different too. Usually I'm more alert, but now I am droopy. Certain parts of my face seems to have subtly changed proportions so that the resulting face is still like my original one but just slightly off. I can't explain it, and I'm sure when I sleep it off it will be gone.
After all, I took the ambien to sleep. Sleep has been a rare thing for the past few days. Friday night, when parents came, we chatted, drank, ate, and watched photo slideshows from my Scandinavian trip until after 3. The next morning I got up before 9 (sleeping on the floor really wasn't that comfortable anyway). After they left, I tried to do work, went to the gym, had dinner with ABS and RH and JJ and S in H Square at a great little sushi place. Then went back to ABS's apartment, read some con law, and played his game for the next FIVE hours! I tried researching some firms while he's doing it, but it was hard. Anyway, I didn't come home until 5 AM, but still managed to get up around 11:30.
Did not step out of the apartment today. I read for con law, read for comparative con law, read for my research for Prof.M, then drafted a letter of resigniation for one of the student activities that I took on. Really am not going to have enough time.
Tomorrow is the first week of on campus interview. I'm not really ready, but I will be intereviewing with 4 firms. Yikes. Here I come...
After all, I took the ambien to sleep. Sleep has been a rare thing for the past few days. Friday night, when parents came, we chatted, drank, ate, and watched photo slideshows from my Scandinavian trip until after 3. The next morning I got up before 9 (sleeping on the floor really wasn't that comfortable anyway). After they left, I tried to do work, went to the gym, had dinner with ABS and RH and JJ and S in H Square at a great little sushi place. Then went back to ABS's apartment, read some con law, and played his game for the next FIVE hours! I tried researching some firms while he's doing it, but it was hard. Anyway, I didn't come home until 5 AM, but still managed to get up around 11:30.
Did not step out of the apartment today. I read for con law, read for comparative con law, read for my research for Prof.M, then drafted a letter of resigniation for one of the student activities that I took on. Really am not going to have enough time.
Tomorrow is the first week of on campus interview. I'm not really ready, but I will be intereviewing with 4 firms. Yikes. Here I come...
9/19/2006
Hellish Day
Today was exhausting. Who said that 2L would be easier? It's not. While the classes are not harder, you are about 100X busier, and this stuff piles on right from the start, so you don't have any breathing room at all.
First of all, I hardly slept. Last night I went to sleep at 3 am because of all the readings I had to complete by today (comparative con law prof, you will pay for assigning 70 pages of reading for a single class TWICE in the first two weeks!) Tuesdays this semester are already my worst days anyway. I have 3 classes, from 8:45am until 7 pm. My Law and Political Economy weekly reaction paper is also due this afternoon. And then, add a meeting with the prof I'm researching for, and an organizational meeting late at night, and my whole day is spent with hardly a moment of relaxation.
My meeting with the prof, KM, was filled with delicious awkwardness. KM was late, and when he finally arrived he was sweaty and out of breath. (It's probably one of the last warm days this year, but it was 85 degrees and freakin' hot under the sun). He said hi and I sat down. Silence. Then he said: "So... nice weather, isn't it?" I cringe inside.
I did try to break the ice by asking him about football. He has a newspaper clip of the Steelers winning the Superbowl last year on his office door. "One for the Thumb!" it read. Boyfriend is from Pittsburgh and is a Steeler fan. This made for about 40 second of relatively relaxed conversation.
Then he gave me my assignment. It's kind of interesting. Looking through 3 reels of microfilm of this case during the civil rights era that is famous for its civil procedure ruling, but which is prosecuted by a prominent black lawyer who worked for the NAACP. I have to index the microfilm. Probably should get this started right away, given how busy my next few weeks are going to be, with 27 interview so far and all.
And then, I get my other research assignment, from this young assistant prof JS. A very interesting project, but sadly likely to be humungous as well.
This weekend, parents are visiting, so will have no time to read, study, or research. Next week, I am immediately hit with 12 interviews. AND I kind of want to do upper-level Moot Court competition.
Damn, thinking about all this is making me a bit worried.
Tomorrow: only two classes, thank God. But I am scheduled for the office hours of prof M, with whom I wanted to do an independent reading this semester but who has completely ignored my email up 'til now. I hope I'm not looking for personal humiliation by going to meet her. Crossing my fingers...
:D that I survived the day at all.
:( that next week is going to be like this, all 5 days.
First of all, I hardly slept. Last night I went to sleep at 3 am because of all the readings I had to complete by today (comparative con law prof, you will pay for assigning 70 pages of reading for a single class TWICE in the first two weeks!) Tuesdays this semester are already my worst days anyway. I have 3 classes, from 8:45am until 7 pm. My Law and Political Economy weekly reaction paper is also due this afternoon. And then, add a meeting with the prof I'm researching for, and an organizational meeting late at night, and my whole day is spent with hardly a moment of relaxation.
My meeting with the prof, KM, was filled with delicious awkwardness. KM was late, and when he finally arrived he was sweaty and out of breath. (It's probably one of the last warm days this year, but it was 85 degrees and freakin' hot under the sun). He said hi and I sat down. Silence. Then he said: "So... nice weather, isn't it?" I cringe inside.
I did try to break the ice by asking him about football. He has a newspaper clip of the Steelers winning the Superbowl last year on his office door. "One for the Thumb!" it read. Boyfriend is from Pittsburgh and is a Steeler fan. This made for about 40 second of relatively relaxed conversation.
Then he gave me my assignment. It's kind of interesting. Looking through 3 reels of microfilm of this case during the civil rights era that is famous for its civil procedure ruling, but which is prosecuted by a prominent black lawyer who worked for the NAACP. I have to index the microfilm. Probably should get this started right away, given how busy my next few weeks are going to be, with 27 interview so far and all.
And then, I get my other research assignment, from this young assistant prof JS. A very interesting project, but sadly likely to be humungous as well.
This weekend, parents are visiting, so will have no time to read, study, or research. Next week, I am immediately hit with 12 interviews. AND I kind of want to do upper-level Moot Court competition.
Damn, thinking about all this is making me a bit worried.
Tomorrow: only two classes, thank God. But I am scheduled for the office hours of prof M, with whom I wanted to do an independent reading this semester but who has completely ignored my email up 'til now. I hope I'm not looking for personal humiliation by going to meet her. Crossing my fingers...
:D that I survived the day at all.
:( that next week is going to be like this, all 5 days.
9/18/2006
I'm Back!
I know, I know, I have been totally MIA. Between adjusting to classes, a gazillion organizational meetings, and hanging out with ABS, J, and Boyfriend, every day just somehow seems to slip away without me putting a word down. I do feel guilty. So here I am back again.
Well, I'm a 2L now... how do I feel?
I feel fine, and a lot more relaxed than 1Ls. I remember last year around this time, when classes were just getting started. There was so much uncertainty and anxiety about classes and classmates and meeting people and "doing the right things." Now, I'm just a lot more relaxed about everything. I am not jaded. In fact I am very excited about the courses I'm taking this semester. Thank God we don't have those mandatory 1L classes and can instead take what interests us! In my case, this includes a lot of policy and comparative law courses. For J, it means copyright, secured transaction, and human rights stuff. For many others, it means trial advocacy courses where they spend 7 (!) hours a day learning about how to be a "real" lawyer. I really want to do that next semester too.
In terms of extracurriculars, upon reflection, I realized that I didn't really enjoy either of my two "main" activities last year, and therefore I am jettisoning both of them! Yay! Nothing wrong with them. In fact I know a ton of people in both orgs who really love the activities, but for whatever reason they just didn't click with me. Instead, I am trying out a couple of other campus activities. One is a relatively newly formed liberal organization (formed explicitly to counter the very influential conservative studetn organization on campus) that brings in speakers and discusses public policy. They are launching a new journal this year, and I volunteered to be an articles editor, and just got assigned to an article on constitutional law last week. It's a bit scary since I am only just now taking con law, but no matter!
I am also a nonresidential law tutor for one of the undergraduate dormitories here, where ABS is a residential tutor and in fact hooked me up with the sweet job. I get 5 free meals a week at the house in exchange for doling out advice and general support about law school. So far, I have met one of my advisees (I have a total of two) and he seems nice, if a bit lost about the whole law school application process. I have also just been hanging out a lot with ABS and his cat in his nice suite in the dorms (which is a convenient 7-minute walk from my apartment).
Oh, I am also researching for a professor here who is an expert in legal history. He seems nice, and the work seems light... we will see how that goes.
So, this is how I spend my days. My life is still in a bt of flux right now, especially since today our career services office posted the interview schedules for Fall On-Campus Interview. I bid for a total of 37 firms (mainly because I didn't know too much about them and just kind of went down the rankings... I know, it's the worst way of doing these things.) In any case, I now have 25 interviews scheduled over the next 3 weeks. Yikes!
:D beautiful summer weather today. Cute con law prof!
:( 70 pages of reading for comparative con law for tomorrow's class.
Well, I'm a 2L now... how do I feel?
I feel fine, and a lot more relaxed than 1Ls. I remember last year around this time, when classes were just getting started. There was so much uncertainty and anxiety about classes and classmates and meeting people and "doing the right things." Now, I'm just a lot more relaxed about everything. I am not jaded. In fact I am very excited about the courses I'm taking this semester. Thank God we don't have those mandatory 1L classes and can instead take what interests us! In my case, this includes a lot of policy and comparative law courses. For J, it means copyright, secured transaction, and human rights stuff. For many others, it means trial advocacy courses where they spend 7 (!) hours a day learning about how to be a "real" lawyer. I really want to do that next semester too.
In terms of extracurriculars, upon reflection, I realized that I didn't really enjoy either of my two "main" activities last year, and therefore I am jettisoning both of them! Yay! Nothing wrong with them. In fact I know a ton of people in both orgs who really love the activities, but for whatever reason they just didn't click with me. Instead, I am trying out a couple of other campus activities. One is a relatively newly formed liberal organization (formed explicitly to counter the very influential conservative studetn organization on campus) that brings in speakers and discusses public policy. They are launching a new journal this year, and I volunteered to be an articles editor, and just got assigned to an article on constitutional law last week. It's a bit scary since I am only just now taking con law, but no matter!
I am also a nonresidential law tutor for one of the undergraduate dormitories here, where ABS is a residential tutor and in fact hooked me up with the sweet job. I get 5 free meals a week at the house in exchange for doling out advice and general support about law school. So far, I have met one of my advisees (I have a total of two) and he seems nice, if a bit lost about the whole law school application process. I have also just been hanging out a lot with ABS and his cat in his nice suite in the dorms (which is a convenient 7-minute walk from my apartment).
Oh, I am also researching for a professor here who is an expert in legal history. He seems nice, and the work seems light... we will see how that goes.
So, this is how I spend my days. My life is still in a bt of flux right now, especially since today our career services office posted the interview schedules for Fall On-Campus Interview. I bid for a total of 37 firms (mainly because I didn't know too much about them and just kind of went down the rankings... I know, it's the worst way of doing these things.) In any case, I now have 25 interviews scheduled over the next 3 weeks. Yikes!
:D beautiful summer weather today. Cute con law prof!
:( 70 pages of reading for comparative con law for tomorrow's class.
9/12/2006
Course Schedules
The past few days have been INSANE! Aside from a big project that I need to do for a student business venture that I'm involved in, I also had to decide on my courses. Add/drop period for courses ends tonight at midnight! After going to approximately 4-5 classes per day, I have finalized the classes - finally!
1. Con Law
2. Comparative Con Law
3. Comparative Local Government: Seminar
4. Political Economy Seminar
5. Health Law Policy Seminar
All 3 of the seminars will involve reading and writing original work. I'm tres excited!
What's more, my Friday is entirely FREE! yoohoo.
1. Con Law
2. Comparative Con Law
3. Comparative Local Government: Seminar
4. Political Economy Seminar
5. Health Law Policy Seminar
All 3 of the seminars will involve reading and writing original work. I'm tres excited!
What's more, my Friday is entirely FREE! yoohoo.
9/07/2006
So Much To Do!
My "to-do" list:
- write to professors and seeing whether they wanted to supervise independent reading with me.
- update resume, research firms and sign up for fall On-Campus Interviews.
- decide on my courses before add/drop period ends.
- fulfill my various extracurricular commitments, including a very time-consuming task that needs to be done by this weekend (too tedious to really explain here - take my word for it that I do NOT look forward to it!)
- inquire into various fellowships, honors programs, and awards, the due dates for which are all in a few weeks!
- organize my apartment, do laundary, dry clean my clothes, buy books, and get ready for the new semester!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- write to professors and seeing whether they wanted to supervise independent reading with me.
- update resume, research firms and sign up for fall On-Campus Interviews.
- decide on my courses before add/drop period ends.
- fulfill my various extracurricular commitments, including a very time-consuming task that needs to be done by this weekend (too tedious to really explain here - take my word for it that I do NOT look forward to it!)
- inquire into various fellowships, honors programs, and awards, the due dates for which are all in a few weeks!
- organize my apartment, do laundary, dry clean my clothes, buy books, and get ready for the new semester!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
9/06/2006
New Semester!
I am back in C-Town. Got back to the States late last night, and spent the entire morning packing and then driving back to the C-Town apartment. Then spent 4 hours vacuuming, disinfecting, and wiping down the entire apartment. Then carried all my stuff in from the car, and piled them on the floor, where they still are.
Too tired to really unpack, and tomorrow is going to be a full day of running around doing errands. I apparently owe my law school $8,000, so have to cough up the cash somehow. (Hello, high-interest loan!)
It's now almost 5 a.m. in Norway. Sigh...
Observation of the day: brown-rice sushi, while an intriguing concept, is really not that good. Actually, they are kind of awful.
Too tired to really unpack, and tomorrow is going to be a full day of running around doing errands. I apparently owe my law school $8,000, so have to cough up the cash somehow. (Hello, high-interest loan!)
It's now almost 5 a.m. in Norway. Sigh...
Observation of the day: brown-rice sushi, while an intriguing concept, is really not that good. Actually, they are kind of awful.
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