Around junior year, I began thinking about going to law school. It wasn’t a terribly sophisticated process. Thanks to my family’s emphasis on education, I always assumed I’d go on to some kind of additional schooling. I wanted to become a smart, successful guy, and law school seemed like a good way to go. I took the LSAT and got a 178, which further made it seem like the thing to do. The end of my undergraduate career was uneventful. I took my senior spring courses on a pass/fail basis, and spent most of my senior year moping about my ex-girlfriend, who’d left me while I had studied abroad in
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