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Lets try this again.
Monday. 8.22.11 4:02 pm
"Honestly, what did he expect? It’s his own fault,’ Specs says to no one in particular, although she’s sitting directly beside me. The two of us, along with eight or nine other law students, are working on a group assignment on a early January afternoon.

“Seriously,” Calvin agrees. “It’s not like he was going to Columbia Law or a top tier school. He wasn’t even going to a 2nd tier school.. if you’re going to a shitty school, don’t expect your job prospects to be anything but shit when you graduate.”

“Hey, check this part out – this is definitely my favorite part of the story,” Specs, glancing up from her computer to make sure everyone was paying her their attention, cleared her throat and adjusted her computer before continuing:
“It’s a prestige thing,” he says. “I’m an attorney. All of my friends see me as a person they look up to. They understand I’m in a lot of debt, but I’ve done something they feel they could never do and the respect and admiration is important.”

“I like how he says “all my friends look up to me,” as if going to some random bad law school is something to be proud of—“


I slammed my laptop shut as memories of events and people in my past pushed their way to to the forefront of my psyche. I thought of my neighbor and old football teammate DeShawn who went from honors student to drug dealer after his big sister was killed not to far from our neighborhood. I thought of Eddie’s mom being pimped on a street corner by his father. I thought of long walks with my own mother that ended before we hit the crossroads where the drug dealers did their dirt every night. I thought of eating ramen noodles on a daily basis for just about a year because my mom couldn’t afford anything else. I thought food stamps and welfare and the Salvation Army and how none of these people would ever relate to any of that shit. These people, reacting to me slamming my laptop, were all staring at me.


I cleared my throat. “It is where I come from. In fact, it’s a big deal just going to college in the first place. Someone embarking on any extended endeavour to further their education past the 12th grade or community college is a big fucking deal in many places – so just who the fuck are you to pass judgement on that?”


Or, atleast, that’s the speech I came up a few hours later as I walked home in the cold Cambridge snow. In reality, I said nothing and it still eats at me to this day that I didn’t speak up. Not saying anything that afternoon is my biggest regret of my 1st year at Harvard Law School and that’s saying a lot.
7 Comments.


absolutely. i expect you post haste!

you may also squeeze dagmar, if you so desire.
» Amelie on 2011-08-22 06:38:15

re: Well I don't like your taste in music, so here we are. Also nah, they are overrated. Somehow they always find me, though.

Regrets suck. Stop having them.
» Unicornasaurus on 2011-08-22 11:14:08

I don't think I would be a good Harvard student. Probably not smart enough...

It's weird how college is such a big deal in so many different ways.
» randomjunk on 2011-08-22 11:45:55

oh, woopsies! i'll lock dagmar in a closet while you visit then.
» Amelie on 2011-08-23 01:24:37

I always do that too...l'esprit de l'escalier. I do it too much, in fact.

though on the bright side, I bet the next time you'll speak your mind because you'll have remembered this little incident and the regret that goes along with it. and also because muffy said so...
» The-Muffin-Man on 2011-08-23 09:08:18

RE:
I don't knnnoooowwwww.
» peanutmelon on 2011-08-24 02:44:49

You haven't been reading up on me lately? D:

D: D:

Also, I'm not sure how I feel about you posting a bunch of crazy irrelevant comments on a bunch of my facebook photos and posts and such, and then deactivating your account so I look like I'm arguing sports with myself.

I don't dig it.
» middaymoon on 2011-08-27 02:25:09

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