March Madness

Last year my March was filled with a 2 week Spring Break including a trip to Hawaii, and March Madness of the basketball kind. This year my March has a quasi-Spring Break and a madness of its own kind.

Sure, I'll be watching basketball since I've become a college bball addict and having fellow law students from other elite basketball schools makes it even more exciting (I am a bona fide Gator-Hater). But I have competitions of my own this month. Even at my kumbaya school there is still a lot of competition.

There's the intense write-on competition to get onto a law journal, the competiveness to get into a clinic (even if it is a lottery system, you're still hoping for one of the coveted spots), fierce campaigning for student government elections and elections in every other student organization, rivalry for jobs against fellow students, and of course our appellate oral arguments against another side infront of our professor and a judge.

It can, and has been somewhat stressful, but law school students thrive on competition. The best is example was this week when there was a "Penny Wars" competition between the law school sections (where you put in change in your team's jars and put in dollars in your opponents jars to cancel out their change). I don't think most people even knew what the fundraising was for, but let me tell you there was fierce competition. Trashtalking, strategizing, plan of attack emails, the works. Law students, competitive, who would have thought?