Somebody shake me, please: Bear with me*

I think the author of this blog post is making a flawed assumption about the people in law school. If people in your law school are a bunch of jerks, it might seem like you’re doing everyone a favor by giving them the benefit of the doubt. Law school is this stressful experience. It’s reasonable to believe that people can act more like adults.

But I’m finding that it doesn’t work like that. The people in law school you can’t stand, you probably wouldn’t be able to stand outside of law school. You’re probably just seeing more things you can’t stand about them because you’re around them so much.

Just because stressful situations make people revert to base responses doesn’t mean you should excuse them. If you’re law school is full of jerks, your school should be blamed not for getting a bunch of nice people and turning them into jerks (although it’s probably not helping), but for admitting a bunch of jerks in the first place.

(via fearful)

COMING FROM A CURRENT 1L:

My classmates are disconnected, isolated and generally unfriendly now.  Although a few of my closest ‘law school friends’ have explained their cold conduct, I can’t help but take it personally.  Despite the burdens of outlining and legal writing, I still call my best friends, still initiate friendly conversation, suggest coffee or studying (without talking) together.   Gotta love law school.  Bring on the loneliness, extreme stress, sleeplessness, and competition.  I’ve got this.