We 20 or so is now just we 9 remaining. Brutal. Some of the people who made such an impact are gone. Some due to grades, some for other reasons. Life takes lots of turns, and law school is hard on folks.
We will be joined tomorrow night by the class of January starts, and we will then journey through this year together. Hopefully we will meld well. They will have just finished Contracts, Torts and Criminal Law, and after a few weeks, some of them will disappear as well, due to grades. But there's no sense of superiority available as we watch that happen. It's too easy to become one of those who don't make it.
Adding to this is some other drama swirling about. As I was warned by a wise friend, things tend to splinter at the end of first year. And so we head into 2L with a gutted class, and some of the ones I most dearly wanted to travel this road with have stepped away.
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