If You’re an Unhappy Law Student Then Make Some Changes!
From Pete Holiday:
Trudging through 3 years of law school does not entitle you to a six-figure salary. In fact, not even going to Harvard and finishing at the top of your class entitles you to that. That’s a good way to earn it, but nobody OWES you six figures. (Unless you are the bank financing my education, in which case I owe you that much.)
Paying your tuition to law school does not entitle you, despite what some might think, to being spoon-fed legal doctrine. I do not believe it is a professor’s job to teach you. I didn’t think that was the case in college, and it’s most certainly not the case in law school. They provide you a curriculum. They direct your studies. They provide feedback if you ask for it. They even lecture from time to time. At the end of the day, though, your failure to learn is not a failure by a professor to teach — it’s a failure that is uniquely yours.
If you are unhappy with your life, or your lot in it, you have one (and only one) person to blame, and that is yourself. It is not law school’s fault that you had unreasonable expectations. It is not the legal profession’s fault that you were not handed the job that you wanted. If you don’t like something about your life, change it. If you can’t change it, learn to deal. Petulant whining is not going to make your life any better, and it will just make you look like a spoiled child.
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