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Jeremy responds (hi, Jeremy!) to my ramblings of yesterday.

Jeremy, you should know, is a terrifically funny guy, and seems very much like the type of person with whom I would have been great friends, had we ever managed to be in the same place at the same time (not counting the blogosphere). I treasured folks like this in college, people who kept their own time and their own rhythm and were more than happy to make you laugh, kidnap you from your twenty-page paper for an enforced study break, and otherwise obliterate a bad mood or redeem a lousy day.

I know no one like him in law school, and the more of him I read, the more I think I understand why. He says, "I don't think law school is, or at least needs to be, "designed to change you as a person." It's school. It's teaching you stuff. Some knowledge, some skills. It's school. Not POW camp." It must be nice to go to Jeremy's school if this is truly the culture there. I have a strict policy of not talking trash about my school on Sua Sponte, but I can safely say this: no one in my class would describe my school as a place that's simply there to teach you some knowledge, some skills, any more than a lemon reamer is designed to gently massage the fruit.

Lesson to learn from this: never, never underestimate the force of law school culture. Pay attention to culture when you're choosing a law school. It's every bit as important as the professors' pedigrees, if not more so: it will dictate much of how you feel for the next few months, and how you come away from them. If you're fortunate, you'll find yourself in a situation like Jeremy's, where your experience is as simple and enjoyable as just going to school.

thus spake /jca @ June 26, 2003 10:23 AM