In Law School Land, there's Law Review (well actually, there's four Law Reviews). These are the journals that are uber-competitive to get onto and what I'll be working on during my spring break. Then there's Law Revue, which is my law school's annual musical making fun of our sad existences.
I went last night to Law Revue to support my friend and appellate brief partner Vicki. In addition to being extremely impressed with the talent of people at this school, I hadn't laughed so hard in a really long time. For my fellow Bruins, Law Revue resembles Spring Sing Company acts. There were song and dance numbers making fun of our bitterness at Gerogetown, how professors arbitrarily give out grades, law students with rolly backpacks, how we can't go to a bar and hold a conversation with a non-law student anymore, law school romances, and of course all those 1Ls miserably spending their Spring Break trying to get onto the other law review.
It's funny how many inside jokes laws students have amongst themselves. Just like any other occupation, organization, or group of people, we bond over things that no one else understands. My friends once asked me why everyone always loved the people within their section, and I explained its because we share our downs and occassional ups together. Things that people outside of our section, and outside of law school will never fully get. It's just like inside jokes between friends.
After three years in our little law school bubble, it'll be interesting to see how we assimilate back into the real world. That is, if we don't take jobs that don't have us chained to the firm 90 hours a week.
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