You hope I don't start up a conversation with you because you know it will lead to the inevitable. That talk and pitter patter about plans for the summer. Great summer plans of getting wined and dined in some far off city. Great plans of meeting new people and getting paid to do nothing. Because you didn't get a single fucking offer. And I can see the pain in your eyes.

I had more callbacks than you had first-interviews. I had more offers than the number of firms who would even deign to look at you twice. I've been to more cities in 4 weeks than you or your grandchildren will ever set foot in during their entire lives. Chicago, New York, LA. I can tell you which airlines fly from which terminals and how many feet you have to walk to get to the 6:50 flight to LaGuardia from the 5:30 flight from O'Hare. I've had more money thrown at me on a single dinner than you spent on food in an entire month. Because you had heard about the stories of excess. And they wouldn't even let you glance inside the window.

For me, normalcy begins again when I write my last exam for my last final of this semester. But for you, it never begins. I see you in the library paging through your casebook. I see you rush to each of your classes: a sense of urgency in the way you move. Because you lost the 1L race, and you'd like to move just a little faster for the 2L one.

I'm sorry my friend, but the life of the law is not only the life of the mind, it is the life of the mob. And to the mob, I cast my body thereupon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7042983)

Dumbass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7043098)

Perhaps you should read the OP again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7044744)

This summer, while I'll be lucky to collect a measly $5k, you'll be bringing in $25k. It will suck, because we're all living on credit now in law school and $20k would be pretty fucking cool to have (remember it's all relative perspective).

But I have another plan. I'll go work in the financial sector, a counsel's office, something in the biz world where they are not so obsessed with the fact that I was not 10%, LR material. A place where my frat boy personality, which intimidates the shit out of Eugene & Herschel the partners, will serve me well. A place where your ability to bag poon at the bar and dominate other people is more important than your ability to churn out useless paper for schmucks and wimps.

If you don't burn out and become a blogger or a vegan food critic for the Village Voice, I'll be there waiting. You see, for the parasitic profession that is biglaw to thrive, it needs clients. Clients in the business world. People like me. If you want to make partner, you have to get those clients (unless you just want to be a $300k counsel billing monkey for the rest of your life, or go into something obscure like tax).

Then you'll come crawling back, begging me for some business. Of course I will laugh, remembering your proud strutting at 23, thinking you were such a swinging dick Johnny. How you showed off that neato blackberry the firm let you keep from the summer. I should be bitter and tell you to fuck off. But I won't. I will probably throw you something, since it's the good guys like me that rise to the top of the business world, and the neurotic, little men like you that make partner. Besides, I'll enjoy seeing you grovel.

At least this is what I tell myself right now so I can sleep at night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7043918)

pre-screened OCI? awww, poor poor azn, he does not go to an elite school. :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7045621)

no, azn, we select the law firms we want to do screener interviews with, not vice versa.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7089023)

This is one of the best things i have read on the board in, well, 4 weeks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7047270)

I saw a 3L like this. Nothing really out of the ordinary in his appearance or demeanor, but there was still this unmistakeable aura. And then, of course, he had "the look" in his eyes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7087666)

This doesn't make sense. You're flying from O'Hare to LaGuardia through a third airport? And the flight from O'Hare to that airport took maybe an hour?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7225328)

"For me, normalcy begins again when I write my last exam for my last final of this semester. But for you, it never begins. I see you in the library paging through your casebook. I see you rush to each of your classes: a sense of urgency in the way you move. Because you lost the 1L race, and you'd like to move just a little faster for the 2L one."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7566036)

Author: variazns on a theme

I see you every time you walk down the halls. You recover from your zombie-like trance just long enough to avert your eyes away from mine. The semester has worn you down and what do you have to show for it? You are a stump of a man.

You hope I don't start up a conversation with you because you know it will lead to the inevitable. That talk and pitter patter about plans for the summer. Great summer plans of getting wined and dined in some far off city. Great plans of meeting new people and getting paid to do nothing. Because you didn't get a single fucking offer. And I can see the pain in your eyes.

I had more callbacks than you had first-interviews. I had more offers than the number of firms who would even deign to look at you twice. I've been to more cities in 4 weeks than you or your grandchildren will ever set foot in during their entire lives. Chicago, New York, LA. I can tell you which airlines fly from which terminals and how many feet you have to walk to get to the 6:50 flight to LaGuardia from the 5:30 flight from O'Hare. I've had more money thrown at me on a single dinner than you spent on food in an entire month. Because you had heard about the stories of excess. And they wouldn't even let you glance inside the window.

For me, normalcy begins again when I write my last exam for my last final of this semester. But for you, it never begins. I see you in the library paging through your casebook. I see you rush to each of your classes: a sense of urgency in the way you move. Because you lost the 1L race, and you'd like to move just a little faster for the 2L one.

I'm sorry my friend, but the life of the law is not only the life of the mind, it is the life of the mob. And to the mob, I cast my body thereupon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7042983)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#7623765)

october or november...that will be prime time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#8445843)

It's not a horrible experience but after 5 or so most people are pretty ready to be done with the process.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=531222&forum_id=2#9173918)