Moar real life.

[eldabe]

Not dead. I have been sick though, for over a week, though. Misdiagnosis at the doctor and four days of pure physical misery and now I'm on antibiotics. Yay! Drugs!

The summer job has been...difficult. (I can be honest here, right? Because I'm not going to do it anywhere else!) My boss telecommutes, and one of the reasons I quit my first job out of undergrad and took the LSATs in the FIRST PLACE was because my boss was telecommuting and I was freaking out. I'm an extrovert and I wilt in the isolation of digital oversight. It was terrible then and I'm really struggling to get over my automatic panic now.

Being sick? Did not help. Gaaaaah.

Also I need to pick firms to apply for for next summer (and if I'm good next summer, they offer me a full-time job! Welcome to law school.) and I have NO IDEA how to choose. Or where I want to live. Or what kind of law I want to practice.

Also, while I'm being honest, my grades are not good. My school is good, but my grades are not. And while we're playing SUPER TRUTH, all of my friends have really good grades. Like...one of my friends has already secured one of the top clerkships in the country good grades. Lesson learned. Next year I'll make friends with slackers, right?

Ugh, I have to edit a piece for my journal, actually. Because I dropped out of the law review competition and had a RESUME PANIC MOMENT so now I have to edit this article. I'm not sure what it's about quite yet, but I'm sure I'll figure it out before publication.

*headdesk*

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Yipes and then some across the board. I wish I could give you some sort of meaningful advice about law school and the path before you, but all I know about the law is from TV. (Therefore: If you stay in Boston, all the lawyers look and talk like characters on David E. Kelley TV shows from ten years ago.)

But...as much as I think you belong in NYC, if you are happy in Boston, stay in Boston. If you miss NYC, come back here. You have a lot to think about in terms of your career, so I would suggest not overthinking the rest. But that's just me (and as you might be able to guess, I tend towards inertia in my own life, so my experiences might not be the best guide.)

[eldabe]

I wish everything in Boston was like David E. Kelley. Real law is booooooring. Or at least, all the law that makes money is boring.

Hahaha, I think overthinking is my natural state. Why make something simple when it could be really, really complicated?

I don't know where I want to live, honestly. I have some lovely friends here, and I have some lovely friends there, and while my family is closer there, it's nice to have a little distance, you know? And while I know this will change, right now I'm the exact right age and marital status for this community whereas that's, you know, not true everywhere else.

But the food options here are kind of atrocious.

[sdelmonte]

I have often heard people say that they like having distance from family. Seems to be the main reason friends from here have moved to Boston. But for some reason that idea seems alien to me. Maybe because I am the child of a widow. Who moved back home after college and ended up becoming "the son who gets to take care of Mom someday" even before I ended up living two doors down from Mom again.

And I think it has take Batya a lot of effort to be used to not living near her parents.

OTOH, maybe we would see things differently if we had moved away for college. Or if we had difficult-to-cope-with parents.

And there is something to be said for being the right age and marital status of the community. That's something I can't say I ever got right for very long, even at Etz.

[eldabe]

It obviously depends on relationship with the family. Let's just say there are some members of my family I wouldn't mind living a block away from. There are others where that wouldn't work so well. :/

(There are advantages to living close to family, but as a single person those are nearly all mitigated by living close to friends.)

I like being the right age and marital status for now. Although, I can already see the clock winding down on this community. Not many people here over 30, although I hear there are more older people in the 'burbs.