Bar Review

Recess is just so common place in the elementary school schedule, sometimes you don't even realize why it's there. It's to help kids release energy so that they can focus better in class. I remember reading in Newsweek about schools who were cutting out recess and they were having problems with their students and their attention spans.

If law school was like, well...school, Thursday nights would be our recess. While it is true that law students study a lot, they also set aside necessary time to unwind. I think it's great and funny that one of the student government's main responsibilities is coordinating weekly bar reviews. (USAC should learn from them). While I am not a hard drinker like a lot of my peers (wow, can they hammer it down), it's definitely a lot of fun to go out after a hard week of classes.

It was crazy to see a bar packed, literally to maximum capacity, with law school students. Eventually it became a little too much like a fraternity party: lots of random people, people bumping into each other, people yelling over one another, and the certain musk from lots of sweaty people in a confined space. Even worse is that they let people smoke in bars in DC, how very un-LA. So the crew I was hanging out with moved next door to a pool hall where it was still smokey but a lot less crowded. We had great, random conversations around the pool tables. One of my favorite quotes of the night was, "So I heard you were the President of the UCLA college dems. Wow, your constituency is bigger than like....Wyoming." Being a political dork and law student seem to go hand in hand. But the best part is that even though all these people love politics (and law I guess), they all have also very cool backgrounds whether it was a guy who worked in biotech for 2 years after graduating or the girl who worked in African refugee camps after graduating.

Sadly I can't go to the next two bar reviews because my parents are coming next week and I'm flying to Syracuse the week after that. But those will be just as fun. All I can say is thank goodness for these kind of mental breaks. Otherwise we would be more neurotic than a lot of us already are.