first year humiliation: a rite of passage, always.

[julie anne]

From standing in line at the university business office next to 2Ls and 3Ls, from passing by more experienced students in the hallways in my first full week of school, and from being laughed at by the 2L boyfriend for my primeval 1L law school student ways, I have learned there are certain things that just scream "1L law school noob".

Are you channeling Quasimodo by having a ginormous backpack filled to the brim with ginormous casebooks, and cluttered with a rainbow of pens and highlighters? You just might be a 1L law school noob.

Upon entering the law school library, do you gracelessly struggle to get out your ID, attempting to balance your casebooks and coffee mug, while 2Ls and 3Ls brush on past (which happened to me this morning)? You just might be a 1L law school noob.

Do you highlight every single sentence in your casebooks because, dude, everything is important? Does the sight of your professor riffling through the class roster or even anything slightly resembling that (i.e. your date flipping through a menu, your dog digging in the backyard, etc.) make you break out into a cold sweat? Do you dream, as I did, about the horror of your casebriefs suddenly being deleted and being replaced with tons of photos containing Photo-Crashing Squirrel? 

And do you write a blog post during a cancelled class when you should really be reading ahead and briefing more cases? Then you definitely are a law school noob.

Calling all 2Ls, 3Ls, law school survivors and professors. What things do us 1Ls do that are a dead giveaway that we are 1Ls? Feel free to comment below!

Comments

[thompson]

As a freshly minted 2L, I can offer this tip:

don't rush into the classroom as the last class is trying to pack up. Seriously. You might be a 1L if...

[Julie Anne I.]

@thompson: shoot. i think i did that on the third day of classes. the teacher and his students were wrapping up class, and all these 1LS were filing in, which prevented them from leaving the room. i'll have to remember that one!

[Jansen]

The blind look of terror is a dead giveaway

[bethany]

if you walk in a large group everywhere, you are a 1L - I think you guys all need moral support!

[Sarah]

Don't dress as though you are on your way to a frat party. Nobody will take you seriously if you are in a pleated denim mini-skirt or are leaving a trail of cologne in your swaggering wake.

[Lori]

As a 1L, I can say with all sincerity that it's just as annoying when 2Ls and 3Ls file into our classrooms before we've all left. Few things grate my nerves as much as being pushed to the side when I'm trying to exit as classroom as a bunch of 2Ls and 3Ls seem to have forgotten the concept that it's easiest (and more courteous) to attempt entry once the occupants have exited.

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