…is coffee, a bran muffin, and listening to an NPR news stream via the Internet.
I came to the Art Lounge to try and get started on Stats homework since I actually brought my notebook and calculator with me, but I’ve just been perusing various blogs, the UC Davis EAC website, and random websites about the law profession.
I have a passion for international politics and law-making in general, but if I’m applying to law school, what am I supposed to say? That I’m looking to law school as a springboard to launch a low-salary government job? To become a vastly-hated politician (hopefully not becoming the next Bobby Jindal, Calvin Coolidge, or–God forbid–George W. Bush)? To become a diplomat to the U.N., whose issues with collective security are probably something that I honestly don’t know if I want to attempt to salvage?
People tell me things like “Oh, you’re a freshman. You have LOTS of time to decide what you want to do.” Which I find absolutely untrue. If I want to get into a top-20 law school, I have to start planning EARLY. And there are so many things I want to do while in college–study abroad, UC Washington Program, FSD internship, and so much more. I have friends who are graduating in 3 years, and for some reason the thought of them graduating a year before me makes me feel like I have to rush myself into finishing fast.
Fucking A. My high school friends are so damn competitive. Oh well.
The problem is, I like college. I don’t mind doing 4 years. I want to be able to savor my time here with the AAC, classes I enjoy taking, and really absorbing all that college has to offer me.
