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I Came. I Saw. I Changed. 17 THINGS that HIT you in an NLU. How to Prepare
Q. I have made it to a national law school. What should I expect? How should I prepare for a life at an NLU?
Ans. 1. Prepare to be crushed and subdued in everything you think you are great at. If you are great at debating, you might not be in the debating team. Prepare for that.
2. Prepare for great opportunities to come your way. Prepare for people snatching the opportunities from you because it is they who deserve and not you. Prepare to be stronger to catch some of the goodies yourself.
3. If you want to do well in academics, prepare to slog. There is no other way out.
4. If you want to enjoy to the fullest, you can enjoy to the fullest. But then, you won’t get a high paying job easily. Prepare for that.
5. Prepare for some great lectures by great faculties. Prepare to be handled some really good sleeping pills by many a ‘doctors’. It could be anyone: ‘Dr. ABC’.
6. Prepare for your initiation into a free, adult world.
7. Prepare for food which sucks, water that makes you ill and air which is foreign. Don’t worry. You will like it soon. Everything is hateable before it becomes lovely.
8. Prepare to say a 'yes' or 'no' to the opposite sex and cigarettes and other maya jaals if you haven't yet said so.
9. Main Samaya Hoon (I am time. Remember Mahabharta?) Prepare to see time fly by, like a bird. It will also drop shit on you. It will also sing wonderful songs for you. It will be as ugly as a vulture, as beautiful as a peacock. Sometimes you will ponder: what animal is this? Don’t ponder. Work. Word hard.
10. Prepare to get bored one year down the line.
11. Prepare to get excited two years down the line.
12. Prepare to be called a 'failure' , 'a real loser'; a 'tremendous success' by your ego depending on what path you choose.
13. Prepare for missing your parents and at 20, crying.
14. Prepare for enjoying your friends' company so much so that you forget to call your parents.
15. Prepare for politics. Prepare for smite. Prepare for love. Prepare for hate. Prepare for pride.
16. Prepare for wasting a month doing nothing. Prepare for slogging for a month, 14 hours a day for a Jessup, for the Harvard law review article.
17. Prepare to read tomes. Piles of tomes. Prepare to write 15,000 words of ‘well researched papers of publishable quality’ in 4 months. When you have done it successfully prepare to say a ‘wow’ to yourself. If you do it well, tell me how.
Welcome sire. Your preparations have just begun.
PS- This is an enlarged and edited version of a forum post earlier. Thought, a blog post will make more sense.
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in short - "prepare to LIVE!"
Legal Dodo
Man! I love and respect your comments like an 8 year old loves and respects what his dad says. Seriously.
Thanks for commenting. Please do comment on future posts too. They always need not agree or pat on my back. :P
BTW...WHY DON'T YOU BLOG? And yeah...will eagerly wait for your poem.
PS:--Gud post!!!
Legal Dodo
You don't need to 'fear' anything. Do I portray a frightening image? To be law school is what you make of it. There are many forks in the road, some which you take consciously some which you don't.
BTW...what image did you have in your mind?
This is what I make of a 'national law university'...first and second hand info.
Nitish the news-maker, thanks for your comment. How did you like point 9? Its my personal favourite.
and really u r b brilliant poet ...
i remember even in school days too u were
interested in writing poems...
@freshers: also prepare for 'positive interaction' :P
All of ur points seem probable except the one on 'cigarettes'...U see,I dont 'drink' cigarettes so a yes to fag does'nt seem to be a possibility.
18, similar to an advertisement, and ...am sorry to sayfalse like an advertisement. Many people are ahead, some neck to neck.
19, may life continue to be good :) cheers
btw...that is point 9.
How are the girls at Law School?
gr8 summary sire..........
Did an awesome job and yes.. it helped me prepare for the future setbacks..
I just hope like anything I make it to a NLU..
P.S.- Please, Please whenever u post, notify me!!
i mean SERIOUSLY
Ciao!
Nightcrawler- :)
How do I notify...Kian...does the software have something to make this doable?
In LegalPoet's case that is:
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Just paste the above RSS URL into the box on Feedmyinbox.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Kian
And yes, meet me in hell (I think that is where we all go ultimately). I surely will tell you how to write a 15,000 odd worded legal research paper of good quality that satisfies the writer at the end of it!
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