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I never joined law school for the sake of it. Nor was I ever forced into it. I joined it because I wanted to learn and equip myself with the right kind of tools to understand the world around me. https://twitter.com/hmlakdawala/status/1250168599123070977">https://twitter.com/hmlakdawa...
Three years later, those seem like empty dreams as I struggle to hold my ground and find a little semblance in a place that thrives on butchering anyone who tries to outshine their resume.
Law School doesn& #39;t believe in the idea of prosperity for all. It& #39;s a remote concept for it& #39;s woke intellectuals that take the notion of competition to mean periodic elimination of the weaker population i.e assessed by grades, top tier internships, moots/writing papers etc.
Apparently everyone is a threat. If you suddenly start scoring well, you come within the radar of their insecurity because there is one more person that they have to fight and beat in this race to get to the top.
Oh and if you have made the unforgivable mistake of being an art kid, that& #39;s the end for you. Then you& #39;re just a disregarded piece of the batch of 180. You& #39;re no longer a threat.
Wait what? You want to study? You want to score better? But why? You didn& #39;t need this job right?
Wait what? You want to study? You want to score better? But why? You didn& #39;t need this job right?
You should see the frenzied looks on the faces of people when I, somebody who is known more for being a writer than a law student starts to talk about academia. Almost as if I have no right to excel at my education.
For them you are the stupid art kid, so you better be just that.
For them you are the stupid art kid, so you better be just that.
For the longest time I couldn& #39;t understand why we were in the habit of looking at eachother more as a threat and less as human. The judgement that this mentality gives birth to is what makes these institutes so unbearably toxic and full of hate in the first place.
We haven& #39;t learnt to be happy for others without equating ourselves to them. It& #39;s only natural to be worried about what you& #39;re doing in life when everyone seems to be racing forward.
But when will you start holding yourself accountable for giving into the cesspool of hate?
But when will you start holding yourself accountable for giving into the cesspool of hate?
In time you& #39;ll learn to be okay with this pattern of behavior because as the world stands to show us, suffering and pain will somehow find a way to be normalised. But for anyone planning to start law school, know that the harder part is the 5 yr journey, not the degree at the end
