Back for another round

Second semester has begun, although we still don't know how we did on mid-terms. A friend, who has reason to know, asked if being in class feels more familiar than being at home in the evening. And he hit it right on the head-it felt a bit like coming home, back where I belong, with people sharing the path. Comfortable, just right, where I want to be of an evening. I wonder what it will be like when law school ends for good. I think perhaps that will be a bigger adjustment than getting used to law school was in the beginning. I'm a part of an elite and private club right now, and it meets at least 3 times a week. We endure intense pressure, go through major life events with our class mates, and forge sometimes long term friendships. And in the end, almost no one else understands the peculiar experience, and so that shared intimacy and endurance test makes a bond that continues to deepen as we move along. We are diverse, some of us young and single, some of us with families and full time jobs, and some having raised families, now embarking on a second or third career. Some love the law, for some this is an endurance test, just a means to an end. But we are in it together, and each one enriches and informs the experience of the others.