Copyright 2000 Rod Borlase. Nevertheless, most of us arrive in law school with the intention to do good things. It is not worldly wisdom to suddenly turn cynical in law school or to lose sight of those high purposes that brought us here. That is, from your first day of law school to your last, and beyond, I urge and encourage you to nourish and sustain those noble motivations and your higher callings and impulses, despite law school's pressures and stresses. Elsewhere among these Borlase Legal Research Guides , I make the point that law and legal practice have comparatively little to do with spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, when compared to words.
Law is a profession of words.
Admittedly, one of law school's first-year lessons is to show you how little you know not a pretty admission, but there it is. Still, you know better than that. To be sure, law school is educational, but it is even more a vocational or trade school, schooling that will become your education's vehicle to deliver those high-minded educational insights. Don't let law school take that understanding away from you. You are now educated, consonant with the college or university you attended and your personal self-application to its lessons.