Working Hardly: You know you’re a law student when…

Posted by Survive Law on Aug 23, 2010

A few months ago I was on Bored of Studies and came across a forum with the same name as this post. My favourite line from that forum was:

“You can’t remember if you decided to come to law school because you wanted to help people and make a difference in the world or because you hate yourself.”

This inspired me to jot down some law student realities of my own…

1. Mixed in with your iTunes playlist is lecture recordings. You go from listening to the Rolling Stones to “Commercial and Estate Practice Week 3.”

2. It’s been four years since you first heard the phrase “intention to create legal relations,” and it still makes you laugh.

3. Your law friends don’t send you messages saying “sorry, bus running late,” they say, “I have registered my interest with the bus driver, but now the State Transport Authority is postponing in its conduct.”

4. In high school, receiving a mark of 80% was the end of the world. Now you’re at law school, 80% feels like the best thing that’s ever happened to you.

5. You procrastinate by drafting your own will, power of attorney and enduring guardianship documents.

6. You can’t watch TV shows about the law because of all the inaccuracies. You prefer to watch the far more realistic medical dramas and dream about the career you could have had.

7. You’re at a bar and strike up a conversation with an attractive stranger. Within a minute of saying you’re a law student, you’re being asked for advice about how to deal with a neighborhood dispute/ parking ticket/ etc.

8. When somebody tells you that things aren’t as bad as they seem, that person is wrong. Things ARE as bad as they seem, and they may actually be worse.

9. You can name all seven High Court justices in order of seniority. Or at least you should be able to. Working out that Kirby J isn’t there anymore is about as far as you’ve gotten.

10. You procrastinate so much that you think you may have seen everything good that there is on the Internet.

11. You realise your life is full of law suits waiting to happen. Someone knocks you over at the train station- assault? You’re also carrying a bag- trespass to goods? The floor is wet and hasn’t been mopped- negligence?

12. You realise you may be the best procrastinator that ever lived. In a bid to avoid study you take up an extra-curricular activity. Then you get bored with that activity and find yourself procrastinating when it comes to doing your procrastination.

No doubt there are plenty more where these came from. Share your own!

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