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September 08, 2003
Potpourri, Miscellaneous, and Etc.
A collection of disjointed thoughts that have been percolating in my head over the last few days:
No matter how many callbacks I have received, getting 5 rejection letters in one day was unpleasant.
I'm not thrilled to be flying on 9/11. But at least I get to watch the Food Network on JetBlue the whole time.
Always accept invitations to meet people's parents and eat at their home away from school. Not only will you get a nice meal, but meeting your friends' parents is one of the best ways to really get to know your friends. And you might get two really cool leather chairs and an ottoman for your living room for free.
It's a very good feeling when your professor talks about an expert in the field and after class, you talk to the prof and say, "I used to work with him. He wrote my letter of recommendation to get into law school." If I didn't actually know the expert in question personally, I'd have felt like even more of a kiss-ass.
The best part of the major renovation in my school's cafeteria is that they now carry Diet Cherry Coke, nectar of the nutrasweet gods. However, there are too many types of Coke. And isn't Pepsi just a little bit late into the whole vanilla game?
The worst part of the renovation (and there aren't many downsides... it's pretty sweet) is that if they had cut back on the plasma TVs by one, or maybe even just gotten a smaller model in one place, they could have purchased enough wireless access points to make the WiFi network on campus useful.
It's not comforting to arrive home and see four firetrucks, one fire marshall SUV, two ambulances, two police cars, and two hundred or so confused tenants in front of your apartment building.
Getting back into reading for classes is more difficult than I expected it to be.
Two callbacks from different offices of the same firm makes an awkward situation. Even moreso if you schedule them in the same trip.
If I put a little more effort into making my travel arrangements for callbacks, I might be able to get enough miles to go to my friend's wedding in San Juan for free next May.
Proof that law students live in a different world: We say things like, "Yeah, I was thinking of working there until I realized they only pay first-year associates $110,000," without a trace of irony.
Posted by buddha at September 8, 2003 11:33 PM
Comments
damn straight. our wireless network blows.
Posted by: disputation at September 9, 2003 02:28 PM
Um, my meager math skills tell me that that's somewhere in the neighborhood of three times what I'm making. And it's too low for you people. Perhaps it's time to consider a change of careers.
Posted by: Anonymous at September 10, 2003 10:11 AM
That's sort of my point... it's not really too low for anyone. And none of us even have these jobs yet. But our perspective is so easily skewed by hype that we forget who we are. Yes, we're coming straight out of school, demanding high salaries, but what we lack in experience and qualification we more than make up for with an inflated sense of entitlement and self-worth.
Posted by: buddha at September 10, 2003 10:17 AM
but some people will pay you that kind of money despite (or maybe because) you are green. They can take your talent and fresh education and pay you lots of money to do work that makes them even more money.
And I want lots of money.
Just out of curiosity, what's the average starting salary for the 1st year out of Georgetown law?
Posted by: Anonymous at September 11, 2003 10:59 AM
No clue.
Posted by: buddha at September 11, 2003 08:45 PM
in '93 g'town had the highest average starting salary for the first year out in the nation. i had a highschool friend who chose g'town over harvard for that reason. i thought he was a soulless money-grubbing republican.
ten years later i find myself at g'town law. for very different reasons, i tell myself. but i must say, six-digit starting salaries aren't unattractive.
and maybe he (the highschool friend) really is a soulless money-grubbing republican. don't really know; didn't keep in touch after about '94.
Posted by: laloca at September 23, 2003 03:15 PM
The standard salary for fresh law school grads at big New York and DC firms is $125,000, an ungodly sum that everyone bid themselves up to during the tech boom, and which (for obvious reasons) hasn't increased since. It probably won't increase again for some years.
Because NY and DC are where most Georgetown Law students going into private practice go, $125K is also the median salary for graduates heading there. Two-thirds of us do so.
For more fun stats, see http://www.law.georgetown.edu/career/placement.html.
Posted by: another georgetown 2L at September 25, 2003 06:00 PM