The personal story of a cynical optimist [Misadventures of an Evening Law Student #1]

1. The personal story of a cynical optimist

Law school is a love hate relationship. Many people I have spoken to can't exactly pinpoint why they ultimately felt compelled to go. Who would honestly want to put themselves through the rigors of voluminous reading, infamous tradition and Socratic exercise that seem like verbal manifestations of mutual mental masturbation? And yet there are more law students currently enrolled in U.S. law schools than there are lawyers (or jobs for that matter). Are we that litigious or just plain sadistic?

Perhaps there is no real answer to the query of why law school" or what type of person you would have to be in order to enjoy it. In his last will and testament Marcus De Sade said of himself: "Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell.... Kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change." What a great description of the law student; even more so in the case of that strange animal known as the Evening Law Student.

evening law student pronunciation key: (ev'ning) (lô) stood'nt)
n.

1. One who is enrolled in classes,beginningg in the period of decreasing daylight between afternoon and night, to study the application of rules of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority as defined by the U.S. legal system; usu. in conjunction with full-time employment during the period of increasing daylight between morning and afternoon and somesemblancee of a life.

2. A sick bastard in need of help.

This definition is in no way authoritative. It merely serves to illustrate the outer boundaries of Evening Lawstudenthood and all it'sitinerantt suffering. It is my sincere hope that this series Misadventures of an Evening Law Student, can provide for readers a slice of insight to this wonderland of academic paradox (whether it be informative or identificative - yes I made that word up along with "Lawstudenthood) and myself with a slice of sanity. May all ye who enter abandon reasonableness, despite what duty of care dictates you demonstrate.