My first year of law school is over. I really have mixed feelings. This year was really hard emotionally. Work-wise it was fine. I could handle everything and pretty much did everything I wanted. I really think I had a great school-life balance. I talked to my friends on the phone more than ever, at least 3 times a week. I texted with them mostly everyday…I hung out with boys on the side. Visited home a few times. I was probably the most social person out of the black people. Our house was the kick it house, so people were always here. Lots of game nights, parties and general ratchetness. I never really experienced stress either. IDK it just wasn’t the 1L shitshow I was expecting.
But omg, there was SO MUCH DRAMA. Allll the time and I felt like I was always at the center of it. I’ve NEVER had that problem in my life. Law school was literally like Basketball Wives. There were so many fights and fallouts with girls and guys and he said and she said and this and that. It was to the point where I would wake up friends with someone and go to bed not talking to them ever again. Time after time. I’ve never made and lost so many friends in such a short amount of time. It was crazy. I think I really changed and probably not for the better. I know I’ve become so much more guarded because I don’t trust people the way I used to. I used to really be an open book, but by the end of this year, I kept my mouth shut. I even stopped talking about the little things I knew about people because this place was just so…toxic socially. But maybe that’s not that bad. I think its probably better to just keep my mouth shut. By the end of the year, I literally just stopped going to the law school for anything other than class. No events, no nothing. I couldn’t be there anymore. It was the worst feeling.
I also started feeling really trapped in my law school life. I was going to the same building in the same two classrooms day after day. I couldn’t take it anymore. I really started to hate it. Then I really started to question law school. I didn’t want to be there anymore. At all. I was done. I didn’t care. I lost all motivation. I just couldn’t. I wanted to just leave so bad. I really felt like it was a mistake…like I should have become a writer or something. I don’t know. There was a lot of “is this what I want?” Looking at some of my classmates, its like they were made to be lawyers. But me? I became this free-spirited butterfly who doesn’t care about anything but my own happiness over the past couple of years and I’m supposed to train for a job where there’s no creativity or individuality? That shit scared me. It STILL does.
Whatever, hopefully this semester goes better than last grade-wise. At the end of the day, I know I can’t do worse. Hopefully, my job this summer makes me want to actually do this. My friends think I’m playing when I say I’m not coming back if this summer isn’t magical as fuck. I’m totally not.


