The New Guy

Yeah, so Armen invited me to join Nuts and Boalts, and I'm happy to accept that invitation. Hopefully, I can provide a dark, sarcastic, biting East Coast perspective to offset Armen's collegial Southern [California] charm.

But before I get to the dark stuff, I just want to note: how fascinating are real university communities? (I'm back at school after some time in the "real world", which we all know is merely a term of art for "trying to pay off debt, as opposed to racking it up".) Walking across campus today at 7:30 am (Ugh), groggy and hungover, I see a line of people wrapping around the Engineering building. Lo and behold, it seems Bill Gates is coming to campus, and tickets were slated to go on sale at nine. People were lined up, on a Friday morning, at least two hours ahead of time (assuming the line wrapping around the building did not form spontaneously as I passed by), to get tickets to see Bill Fu%*in' Gates!

I'm not sure whether to laugh or to cry.

*Just to highlight an important difference between law school and many other graduate and undergraduate programs, the only time you're likely to see a line wrapping around anything at law school, you can bet there is free food or free beer at the front end...