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AFormerStudentsRetrospective 3 - 21 Nov 2020 - Main.JoeBruner
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A Retrospective On A Time in Law School, Now That There Is a Pandemic
-- By JoeBruner - 20 Nov 2020 | |
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> | | | | Me, Four Years Ago
Four years ago, I was a 1L at Columbia Law School. My best friend and I had, two weeks prior, drank heavily and hugged with and cried with upperclassmen we didn't know and whose names I never learned after Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States. I was afraid. Coming into law school, I was utterly confident in Martin Luther King's statement that "though the arc of the moral universe is long, it bends towards justice." I thought that the slow progress towards a more just and equitable society, where I saw my friends finally able to marry and tens of millions more get health coverage, was the way of the 21st century. It was, of course, far from enough to achieve a real measure of justice and equality, but it was better than the America I was born into, and I expected this slow progress would continue, and my legal career would be some mix of making a lot of money and getting recognized for being a smart and prestigious person, and helping to fire the engine of this train of social progress and push it along a little faster, so the disenfranchised don't have to wait quite as long for justice. | | | This was the best course I ever took. I am proud that I have been at least somewhat able to do justice to the person it brought out in me, and I am eager to do more to become the person it helped me know I want to be. But it is no longer about me. If you take it, it will be about you. And I hope some of the thoughts in this section, and other coursewikis composed by myself and my former classmates and those who came before me are useful to you as you invent a life for yourself in a circumstance both no one and everyone expected. Many terrible things are happening, but you are not alone, you are not the only one who cares, and it will not make you more practical, or interesting, and maybe not even happier to ignore how you really feel about them. | |
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