Lets reminisce about forgotten XOXOHTH stuff from long ago
| Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/13/17 | | offensive stage | 04/13/17 | | mustard deep circlehead | 04/14/17 | | Marvelous topaz party of the first part | 08/29/20 | | irradiated faggot firefighter ticket booth | 04/14/17 | | Titillating Tank | 04/14/17 | | gay arousing hall indirect expression | 03/29/18 | | Rusted death wish | 04/13/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/13/17 | | Rusted death wish | 04/13/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | Rusted death wish | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | Diverse striped hyena | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | appetizing self-centered library degenerate | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | appetizing self-centered library degenerate | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | appetizing self-centered library degenerate | 04/14/17 | | Multi-colored Sickened Area Voyeur | 04/14/17 | | dashing henna background story chad | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | geriatric coral house sex offender | 04/14/17 | | irradiated faggot firefighter ticket booth | 04/14/17 | | Hairless Tan Step-uncle's House | 04/14/17 | | Comical Ivory Faggotry | 04/14/17 | | Rusted death wish | 03/29/18 | | Ruby institution | 04/13/17 | | spruce turdskin | 04/13/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/13/17 | | offensive stage | 04/13/17 | | swashbuckling whorehouse | 04/13/17 | | Ruby institution | 04/13/17 | | learning disabled school cafeteria | 04/13/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/13/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/13/17 | | irradiated faggot firefighter ticket booth | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/13/17 | | appetizing self-centered library degenerate | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/13/17 | | offensive stage | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | offensive stage | 04/14/17 | | offensive stage | 04/13/17 | | floppy lettuce trust fund | 04/13/17 | | offensive stage | 04/14/17 | | Rusted death wish | 04/14/17 | | floppy lettuce trust fund | 04/14/17 | | swashbuckling whorehouse | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | coiffed bright round eye box office | 04/14/17 | | charcoal macaca sandwich | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | orchid bat-shit-crazy base | 04/14/17 | | Plum Church Building Black Woman | 04/14/17 | | Vigorous prole | 04/14/17 | | Racy chapel affirmative action | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | amber friendly grandma | 04/14/17 | | Vigorous prole | 04/14/17 | | crusty corner boiling water | 04/14/17 | | Nighttime Citrine Persian | 04/14/17 | | amethyst aphrodisiac sanctuary police squad | 04/14/17 | | Beady-eyed Useless Puppy | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | Splenetic Opaque Twinkling Uncleanness | 04/14/17 | | godawful preventive strike | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | swashbuckling whorehouse | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | swashbuckling whorehouse | 04/14/17 | | Bossy Spectacular Abode | 03/29/18 | | godawful preventive strike | 04/14/17 | | irradiated faggot firefighter ticket booth | 04/14/17 | | Plum Church Building Black Woman | 04/14/17 | | Black stage goal in life | 04/17/17 | | gay arousing hall indirect expression | 03/29/18 | | apoplectic wagecucks | 04/14/17 | | swashbuckling whorehouse | 04/14/17 | | Racy chapel affirmative action | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | swashbuckling whorehouse | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | Salmon hospital | 06/16/24 | | Hairless Tan Step-uncle's House | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | azure cumskin mad-dog skullcap | 04/14/17 | | Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes | 04/14/17 | | Plum Church Building Black Woman | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | Hairless Tan Step-uncle's House | 04/14/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | Unholy tattoo skinny woman | 04/14/17 | | translucent indian lodge mood | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | Ruby institution | 04/14/17 | | Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker | 04/14/17 | | geriatric coral house sex offender | 04/14/17 | | translucent indian lodge mood | 04/14/17 | | Unholy tattoo skinny woman | 04/14/17 | | dashing henna background story chad | 04/14/17 | | excitant university | 04/14/17 | | Ruby institution | 04/14/17 | | Plum Church Building Black Woman | 04/14/17 | | Unholy tattoo skinny woman | 04/14/17 | | translucent indian lodge mood | 04/16/17 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 04/14/17 | | lavender theater | 04/14/17 | | Vivacious Pit Legend | 04/16/17 | | Infuriating claret hell | 04/17/17 | | Black stage goal in life | 07/25/17 | | poppy theater stage travel guidebook | 08/16/22 | | 180 Hyperventilating Den | 01/11/18 | | curious cobalt crackhouse double fault | 01/11/18 | | glassy cruise ship jew | 07/30/19 | | Filthy roommate parlour | 07/30/19 | | bearded contagious space | 08/29/20 | | Nighttime Citrine Persian | 08/29/20 | | Medicated Fanboi State | 08/29/20 | | Ruby institution | 08/16/22 | | Exciting Crawly Lodge | 08/29/20 | | Grizzly depressive parlor | 08/29/20 | | fighting bateful temple | 04/18/21 | | gay arousing hall indirect expression | 08/16/22 |
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Date: April 13th, 2017 11:21 PM Author: Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker
pensive
hizzlaville
ducktales
blondielaw
JapaneseBusinessDood
what am I missing?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069451) |
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Date: April 13th, 2017 11:47 PM Author: Rusted death wish
Touched on this in my 2015 comeback thread but I'll take another trip down memory lane with you.
Not sure if LSD is still active but when I started posting on XOXO I started on the college board whilst also posting on LSD. LSD was a little too bland for my taste and XOXO still had notoriety from the post LOL-suit fallout, so I eventually made the switch altogether.
Made a couple threads on the college board and wondered why the fuck it was so dead. I was a NYU UG at the time so I didn't really want to move to the law board. After many failed attempts at reviving the college board I moved onto the law board, which was the sole active board at the time: there was no business board. Or grad school board.
Pensive was still active and liked to shill for his blog, and was in grad school at the time. Everyone know him because he went way back. I'm pretty sure he had multiple sockpuppets that he used to bump his own threads. Tech, math, and IQ were his specialty but because he was so often in his own little world, I did not interact with him much. I do recall being Facebook friends with him at one time and being surprised at his girlfriend. They looked happy together and thus I was also happy for him. I think he even pops up now from time to time.
Around for the same amount of time as Pensive, if not longer, was Hizzla. JBD liked to interact with her, and Hizzla's picture was even leaked. (The rumors were largely untrue, if said picture is to be believed.) She was Bloodacre with a vagina and perhaps sans a few pounds. Completely harmless, but had her detractors. Gotta hand it to her for remaining cool despite the fat jokes. Eventually she gave her original account to someone else, I believe. Nothing but nice to me as well.
JBD had an affinity for her and was the primary WGWAG troll at the time. If you haven't seen his Youtube WGWAG videos, they were awesome. 180 content creation. Even made a WGWAG website: http://www.ratethiswgwag.com/ Don't remember Paradorn Srichaphan, Professor of WGWAG Studies? Next level shtick. A true gentleman and scholar.
Blondielaw23 was a hot femposter who I actually hung out with IRL. On the board, she occasionally feuded with the other prominent female posters at that time. When we met, we made sign pics for JBD, SonicYouth, and some other posters. I can't really tell you many details about what we did IRL except for the fact that she is a lot of fun and a cool bitch. I miss her a lot.
Ducktales was just lame whokebe spam (or was it TBF?) and I never liked it. A woo woo was good for one or two laughs but overstayed its welcome. That's right, fuck you, Ducktalians!
ADDENDUM: the JBD-SonicYouth reveal was insane. goddamn, Rachmiel. still blows my mind to this day.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069604) |
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Date: April 14th, 2017 3:52 AM Author: Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes
Pensive still posts occasionally but usually not using his own name.
I was intrigued with his concept of the "heroic woman" until I discovered only female anime characters could ever qualify.
When I started poasting Rowan was the undisputed Queen of Xo and stayed that way for a few years until she started to lose interest and Box appeared.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33070516) |
Date: April 13th, 2017 11:22 PM Author: Ruby institution
Guacgate
Bothered SCREAMING kiss from a rose
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069462) |
Date: April 13th, 2017 11:24 PM Author: spruce turdskin
Who remembers Camel Toe University?
Barzini's fort
softbatch
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069473) |
Date: April 13th, 2017 11:54 PM Author: 180 Hyperventilating Den
Kindness Club
Fiber Cult
The Horde
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069654) |
Date: April 13th, 2017 11:59 PM Author: floppy lettuce trust fund
The box posing nude around the Brown campus and posting a receipt for her callous murder of little Jack.
Lisa "Droopy Dog" rowe being all gakked out on her first day of law school at UC Davis.
MadCat helping poor nigs by day and being a total slut by night.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069689) |
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Date: April 14th, 2017 3:49 AM Author: Glittery Plaza Useless Brakes
..tp as a suffix does mean "the poster"
Like I am referred to as twentynine or 29 and sometimes as 29tp.
I think it started as a thing to identify posters whose names or abbreviated names alone could be confusing in the context (e.g. Lisa Rowe = lr = lrtp) and then it spread more generally to whenever anyone thought it was cute to add tp to a name.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33070512) |
Date: April 14th, 2017 12:02 AM Author: Racy chapel affirmative action
in what era do we put HAHAURFUCKED?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069713)
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Date: April 14th, 2017 12:11 AM Author: godawful preventive strike
Shomer aka Turbo Bulldog
euphronious or whatever
calm
Jim Adler
ztml
Leiter linking to our site and switching the link with a pic of tubgirl
Bush threading
Prof Edgar Martinez
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069769)
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Date: April 14th, 2017 12:11 AM Author: swashbuckling whorehouse
that dude in the procrastination thread who tried to hang himself with a bedsheet from his dorm window after taking too many classes and fucking up his finals schedule, but the blanket ripped and he merely broke his leg.
the macaca scandal with that boomer blogger in 2006 who thought that the macaca guy was actually a poster here under his real name, and was posting racist/vulgar shit.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069770) |
Date: April 14th, 2017 12:12 AM Author: godawful preventive strike
lol. I have multiple monikers on this list
====================
The Tiers
====================
===THE FOUNDERS===
rachmiel
Great Teacher Onizuka
The Boondocks
===THE UNTOUCHABLES===
fiver
Renada Deshada
rk982
Joe (Caltech '04)
WBA
regular guy
===THE ELITES===
¶Œ‡®‰d¤££ª®
solzy
Evan-2001
Theaetetus
Pedicabo Vos
IH
===THE INDEFATIGABLE===
:D
Anon6356
AntmaticYale05
Earl
Edgar Allen Pwn
Gogol Ganguly
HomerJSimpson
J.
lonestar
The Meanest Fish
MoreDoughHi
Rowan
sarcaschtick
Stabby McLawyer
===THE NOTORIOUS===
AK47
boombjoe
B00R
gwerks
A horse walks into a bar
imightbegiant
lawyerbird
lonelyvirgin
pauliewalnuts
Scatman John's Mustache
Sonic Youth
Trustifarian
===THE MEGAPOSTERS===
174
Japanese Business Dood
Jewdood
MediaKid
pensive
Poetic Dreamer
To be fair
Watchmen
Whokebe
===THE ATTENTION-SEEKERS===
AlliCat
arrow
black eyeliner
Bluesmoke
joires
Julia
Madame Cunt
nyuug
rasquatch
ruskie
saltybabe
sugarywitch
===THE LEGENDS===
AlabamaJDEsq
black keys
bosoxgirl
crapturds
Doc Lewis
Don Barzini
Edgar Martinez
el greco
Euphronius
Extreme Fajitas
fulano
funshine
Harrison Randall Pink
Hazelrah
HITS
HOCHZEITZ
ICE
Ivy League Girlie
JCM
Jul. Shockley
Killuminati
Marcellus Wallace
Mastadon
Melungeon
MindTheGap76
Mr. Plow Underground
Mr. Jinx
NicoBlue
nurserachet
OralAdvocate
port drudgery
RWA
Sexpert
sforza
Shackleton
shomer
fjackie
Vector
zmtl
===THE EXISTENT===
2nd Year Biglaw Litigator
reality, sorry
Beta795
Dogshit
DukeSucks
Esaias
Foggy Bottom Dreaming
Gay Posse
hella_theo_2
JaggedEdge
Levi-Civita symbol
Mad Cat Disease
mandy
Merriweather Post Pavilion
shiveringjenny
Susie Derkins
there's a wocket in my pocket
===THE AMUSEMENT===
bloodacre
bothered
The Box
C+C
Carl Spackler
Chalmers Johnson
DeanRobbins
evan39
five alive!
h. ryder
Howard Stern
Jane Hoya
Joe_Vaj_8
Mayor McCheese
NYCFan
Random_Sequence_of_Punctuation_Marks
Samhorn
skeletor
SlapJohnson
timvstim
TubaFrog
twist
xboxdood
===NOT FORGOTTEN===
Advocate
askav
BEEF SUPREME
Bubba Sparxxx
Bull Connor
Calm
chancemeeting
ChicagoAdChick
The Dark Knight
DrewSucksoe
dungeonmasttter
Dwyane Wade
egg
Faen
Fartman69
fentanyl
gross old man
guy.
GWLaw23
Henrietta Egg
HEPennypacker
He's the Scat Man
Hirofromthefuture
hizzla
Hizzla's Feminist Thought Professor
HoboStickbag
I only jerk off to ex girlfriends
Innocent Stationary Bike
IronMonkey
jakki
jimpop
Jim S. Adler
mafoofan
man o' war
Midnight Cowboy
MOARDONGSPLZ
mobiusnu
NavinRJohnson
THE NICK SWISHER JUGGERNAUT
nirvanayoda
noncuratlexus
nutella
Peenicus
PeterGunz
Rational Thought
Red Means Go
red swingline stapler
The Rock
Sean Hannity
shamwow
sillygoose
Spicoli
Swanus
Sweep the Leg Johnny
tokyorose
ursula
valen2
WhitePride
Winnie Cooper
====================
Sources
====================
Introduction: http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1139675&forum_id=2
First Update: http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1159340&forum_id=2
Second Update: http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1165456&forum_id=2
Third Update: http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1170869&forum_id=2
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069781)
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Date: April 14th, 2017 12:31 AM Author: 180 Hyperventilating Den
Date: June 5th, 2005 1:49 AM
Author: Thersites
i was pretty distressed about peak oil and its implications, which is to say that i was filled with dread about our impending doom. . . .
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=193235&forum_id=2#2933980
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069895) |
Date: April 14th, 2017 12:25 AM Author: Yapping Dog Poop Boistinker
community accounts
and then Rowan changing the passwords to the community accounts
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33069877) |
Date: April 14th, 2017 7:21 AM Author: Plum Church Building Black Woman
Sijans rankings are a fraud!
Nico blues aborted babby
Barzini getting pwnd. Barzini being too stingy to buy bedsheets
Honeyheaded
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33070783)
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Date: April 14th, 2017 1:35 PM Author: Unholy tattoo skinny woman
In the immediate aftermath of the lolsuit there was increased demand for anonymity. For a long time, we were unable to change passwords for accounts, so there was a huge uptick in community accounts (accounts that everyone knew the username/password for, and anyone could poast from them since no one was able to change the password). I think most oldmos will remember some of the big ones: "gwerks" was a big one, I think one was called "hizzle," I think "Swattie" was another. And of course the fempoasters have the FCA, a women-only community account that fempoasters used so they could talk about their IRL's without getting doobs'd. So community accounts were 180 as fuck, and we all loved using them to discuss our IRL shit or to poast flame threads.
One day an alpha as fuck CODEPIG announced that he'd created a script for registering new accounts, and he registered 1000 accounts with the username "deanrobbinsXXX" where XXX was a number from 000 to 999, and the password was the same as the username. So the dude essentially created 1000 community accounts for everyone to use. So you could basically just login to a random deanrobbins account and poast away with zero fear of being doobs'd.
Then, one day, rach returned and fixed the password feature, and suddenly you could change the passwords for accounts again. This being xo, we didn't collectively say "you know what, these deanrobbins accounts are 180 as fuck, let's just all agree not to change the passwords." Of course not. Instead, there was an enormous scramble to "claim" blocks of Deanrobbins accounts by changing the password. I think I managed to snag like 10 of them before the whole set was picked clean within minutes of rach making the announcement.
So now the deanrobbins accounts were all private. But it was still kinda cool for those of us who snagged a few accounts because they were used by so many people for so long that you could still kinda use them anonymously, since their poast history was filled with various people's info. A few months later, rach deleted all of the deanrobbins accounts and the party officially ended.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33073044) |
Date: April 14th, 2017 1:54 PM Author: translucent indian lodge mood
The war with NYPD Rant.
GTO's boat.
People trolling Lat on ATL about his sister's pancake shaped ghost.
Leaking the USNWR rankings with full PDF scan of the magazine.
In the wake of the T14 contest and pauliewalnuts going insane, the weird period when everything was unraveling. The Keker posts to the board as the first hints of the LoLsuit. The nervous anticipation when someone found out there was a NYT story coming. People with PACER access posting every detail of the LoLsuit as it was filed.
A Horse Walks Into a Bar's fetish for Persian girls.
Texass (who was my favorite fempoaster of the era).
The inevitable collapse of AOL AIM, which was the only way I had to contact most people off board, severing some really long running online friendships.
The amazing revelation about Iravani Senior's legal troubles and the horses.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33073163)
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Date: April 14th, 2017 2:18 PM Author: Plum Church Building Black Woman
Ruski v blue smoke fights and endless boart debates about whos more attractive
Me and killuminati faking my death
Wasnt arrow obsessed with babies?
Sugarywitch
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33073343)
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Date: April 14th, 2017 8:53 PM Author: lavender theater
anyone recall "don and murph," those kids who spammed their "comedy" videos on here in the mid-00's?
apparently they kept at it for years and years, but never really gained much of an audience along the way.
their website it still up:
http://donandmurph.com/thecast.html
another forgotten episode was the arrival of "grand master funk," a doctrinaire intelligent-design proponent who got into long subthread wastelands with ƒjackie, who changed his moniker to "grand master ƒjackie" as a result of this feud.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33076196) |
Date: April 16th, 2017 9:06 PM Author: Vivacious Pit Legend
Gross Old Man!
Ice Road Truckers!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#33089734)
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Date: August 29th, 2020 11:58 PM Author: Grizzly depressive parlor
Author: Mason27
Subject: Congratulations!
Based on your reaction to getting the offer, this is probably the best thing that could have hever appened to you. I encourage you to enjoy the summer and take accept their offer as nothing in the world will cure you of your prestige obsession quicker than some time at S&C.
During orientation, they'll give you an S&C shoulderbag and you'll wear it with the S&C logo facing outward so any other commuters in the know can see it and you'll just know that they're either impressed or envious. And that will make you happy and proud. And then you'll try to figure out the best way to ensure that you're sworn in as soon as possible after receiving your bar results because then you'll get the box full of business cards that say "Sullivan & Cromwell LLP" with your actual name underneath. You'll be giddy at the thought of casually passing one (mid-conversation) to some acquaintance from undergrad you've lost touch with.
You'll start working and you'll notice that there are an awful lot of "Farewell" emails and someone will tell you that the farewell emails can only contain 4 names at a time per firm policy because the partners decided sometime in 2004 that emails indicating 6 or 7 people were leaving the firm in a two week period might cause some unhelpful whispering. You'll talk to a midlevel associate who is super-psyched to work at S&C and you'll find out that he (not a lot of shes) lateralled from some firm that frankly you would never have considered working for (too TTT for you). When you get back to your office, this will trouble you a bit, you'll wonder if your own escutcheon is being blemished by the presence of this type of person (i.e., non-elite) at your S&C. But that feeling will pass as you'll find plenty of other like-minded first years who equally relish the prestige as you you head for a drink at Ulysses (shoulderbag logo facing outward).
Then you'll get staffed on your first big deal and you'll work late night after late night and then on the weekend and on to the next weekend and then on to the weekend when you had planned to go to a friend's wedding. And you won't go because the work has to get done and you have dues to pay (or so you'll be told). You'll get a little bit upset about this turn of events, but the arrival of those business cards will soften the blow.
You'll meet more and more laterals from firms that you would never work for (some you've never even heard of). You'll note in the farewell emails that some of the junior and midlevel associates leaving S&C are going to those very same firms. Survival of the fittest you'll say. But late at night, when the air conditioning clicks down from a barely perceptible hissing sound to complete silence, these things will bother you. But you'll tell yourself you're just tired and frustrated and anyway you have work to do.
You'll have lunch with Rodge and he'll tell you that business is good and that he's listening to associates' concerns about quality of life issues. You'll notice that some of the senior associates visibly roll their eyes at each other when this comes up, but you won't mind that much because, really, what other firm's managing partner regulalry has lunch with associates to hear their concerns (and takes notes!)
A few months will pass, a few marathon deals will happen, you'll have to re-schedule a vacation but you'll tell yourself that that is to be expected.
About a year in, a couple of your classmates will crack and start talking about how much the job sucks. They'll very likely have gone to Yale Law School. You'll joke that they couldn't hack it when they leave the firm for a clerkship, or an academic position or to go to a firm in another city.
Things will go on in this pattern and you'll notice the fact that you're working a lot harder than your friends who went to "peer" firms. At first you'll be proud of this and brag about it, but after a while you'll find yourself downplaying it. At least when you have the time to get out and socialize with your law school friends.
Something will happen: a partner will scream at you, a senior associate gunning for partner will blame you for her mistake, the partner will tell you that the trip to Europe your spouse meticulously planned just won't be able to happen (he'll be really sorry and will tell you a funny story about the exotic vacation he missed or cut short). Doesn't matter what, but you'll get really pissed and you'll start to take some of the 4 or 5 calls from headhunters that you'll receive every day at that point (vultures spell blood). They'll give you the names of firms that you laughed on in the days when you posted on the XOXO board, but you'll find yourself looking into them. The headhunter will encourage to just listen to their offer and you'll consider doing so. But you won't leave because then you'd have to give up your business cards. And stop wearing the shoulder bag. And the bonus is only x months away so you'll start thinking about it then.
Until one day you won't be able to take it any more and you'll find yourself arranging to meet with people from a lightly regarded firm for a position in their New York office. And you'll worry that the XOXO crowd will see you.
And you don't believe any of this will happen, but I suggest you print this out and keep it in the top desk of your drawer so late at night when you're feeling sorry for yourself, you can add to the list of reasons to be miserable this fact: someone told you this was going to happen and you thought that person was crazy.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3583995&forum_id=2Ã#40837504) |
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