Which is not to suggest law schools have degraded into entirely useless three-year rites of passage, where restless idealists bide their time until they have accumulated enough credits to take the bar exam. On the contrary, law school is the lion's den of competition. Law students tend to be edgy, confrontational, short-tempered and suspicious. This is a cutthroat business. Thousands of dollars are at stake, and there's only one way to win.
Grades are to law students what profits are to a business.
They are everything. Good students eat, drink, sleep, breathe and dream grades. Bad students only eat, drink, sleep and breathe grades. I'm going to have activities. I'm going to be well-balanced.