Things Pinterest has Taught Me about Law School

So, being that I start school in just a little over 3 scant months (holy moly time flies, doesn't it?) and I still have pretty much no clue what school will have in store for me, I decided to do some research. It seemed responsible.

After asking a few current law students and former law students I started to get a general gist of what I was in for. Phrases like "hate your life," "no life," "forget you ever knew about something called a sun," "plan on missing family moments," and "I actually really love the challenge" (I know, you weren't expecting that one were you? At that point, neither was I) became pretty commonplace in my Facebook and text conversations, and -- while I was, and still am, super grateful to all of these people for taking the time to talk to me -- I decided I should broaden my research and find new avenues of information.

Obviously teachers would be biased. Plus I'm not comfortable enough with any yet to just shoot them a witty, yet surprisingly insightful email full of questions. So I turned to another option -- a website that would be sure to give me a wealth of information, from a veritable smorgasbord of viewpoints: Pinterest.

And here is what Pinterest has taught me about law school.

1. There will be a thing called Blackacre. And apparently I should just add it into my Word dictionary now, because I'll be typing it. A lot. (It's something to do with property law and that's literally all I currently know about it. Perhaps I should type it into a real search engine....)

But really, almost every pin I saw about Blackacre involved it burning to the ground. I wonder if this is literal, or just what every student wants to have happen to it...

2. As a former English major, law school will be hell.

I imagine this has something to do with the fact that I've spent the last four years learning how to streamline my writing into something that is at once beautiful and concise (clearly I didn't learn that lesson too well), and now I need to make it repetitive and very hard to read. Dang it. Might as well forget those last four years...

3. Law school will be easy!

Just as long as I've mastered riding a bike on and through fire. It's now on my summer bucket list.

4. However, while law school may be easy -- I will apparently no longer have weekends.

But that's okay. I don't really have a life anyway. In fact, I just LOVE studying for hours on end and spending all my free time hunched over a computer doing my best imitation of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. 

5. But! On the plus side, going to law school will apparently give me full license to Tony Stark eye roll over what other people say -- and I do enjoy doing a good Tony Stark eye roll.

6. There will never actually be a need to admit that I'm wrong. I have to admit, I'm very excited about this one. I don't like admitting that I'm wrong anyway, and now I'll be better equipped to argue why I'm right. Or at least, not wrong.

7.  There will come a day when jokes like these make me laugh and giggle uproariously, while my family looks over at me in mild concern.

I'm very much so looking forward to that day. I think it'll mean that I've arrived as a law student. A real one.

8. Law school is essentially Hell. Several pins have confirmed this. 

But that's okay. I've been living in a veritable icebox for the last four years, so a little heat will be a nice change of pace.

9. I will have the absolute best response if I start dating someone and it starts to get serious.

It's called fishing for compliments. Except now it'll be called doing my homework. Yes!

And finally,

10. There's no chance law school will make me lose my sense of humor.

It will just add to the hilarious things I can say. I gotta tell you, this one really relieves me, because I can handle anything -- even three years of hell -- if I can laugh my way through it.

Thank you Pinterest. Without you I wouldn't know half of what I now know, which is still very limited. You have lawyered me.