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A mandatory presentation from Career Services was held in the newer building of the law school.
We didn’t spend much time there otherwise until second semester. The color scheme was grayish green, grayish blue, chrome, and brown. The windows were shaded so that the view—either West Third, Washington [...]
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“You’re just like the perfect lawyer,” I said to Griffothy. “You do all the reading every day and you raise your hand in class. Coconut farmers don’t argue about torts.”
Giffothy looked at me right in the eye.
“I wasn’t always like her.” His eyes and thumbs returned to the lemon. [...]
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The after party was at Fat Black Pussycat, a lounge nearby full of tall brown booths, corners, and non-law students in tedious jeans styles. The perfect lawyer ditched for home but Griffothy bought me a Long Island iced tea. Then a normally-shy guy accosted him and started asking [...]
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Career Services transformed the old building into a semiformal/costume ball (you could choose to dress semiformal or in costume) by taping ghosts to the wall and turning off lights.
The second floor lounge was completely dark except for light coming in from the hallways, street lights through the window, and [...]
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I was supposed to meet with some people from lawyering for a group project but they let me out of it because it was my birthday. Instead I took a nap. Then I put on my expensive black dress and met the perfect lawyer and Griffothy at Shade Bar. [...]
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The professor for civ pro was Miller, the famous litigator with a complicated forehead.
Tufts of hair formed what looked liked the shadows of two horns. People said that it looked like he tried to get plugs but they didn’t take. I didn’t know anything about that. To me the [...]
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During contracts on the day I turned 21 this guy threw up Chesster’s computer. In the middle of lecture I heard a gurgling sound, like a waterfall, and then Chesster stood up from his seat two rows ahead of me.
“We need to go,” Chesster said to the room, and [...]
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In college the scenery was always changing its mind. Every time I read a new philosopher, the trees seemed to be up to something different.
Take Schopenhauer and his argument that nature has a subjective drive just like people do. After I read it I walked out of the library [...]
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In the beginning, Civ pro vocateur’s “gossip” sounded like it was cut and pasted from press releases. It was all stuff the subjects were proud of. For example:
The Class President let his deputy pee on his floor in Dag. Turned out he had inside info that carpet cleaners were [...]
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NYU was a lot of middle class ironists mixed in with good soldiers of all backgrounds.
Most of my friends didn’t want to be lawyers. We’d rather have gone into media or politics but we didn’t know how. So we read media about politics all day instead. “I’ll just do [...]
