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1. What you are told by EVERY law student before becoming a 1L.
2. People will tell you that you're privileged to be in law school, but later you'll wonder why you volunteered.
3. Everyone honors you, but no one wants to be in your place.
4. How much reading is there?!
5. Your Dean and Professors act like everything is perfectly fine, seemingly forgetting you've never done this.
6. You come to understand the real meaning of the curve.
7. There's almost 70 people in my section and about 5 A's to go around!
8. The Semester Goal!
9. That jerk in your section who thinks he will beat everyone and have piles of money the moment he graduates.
10. You hate when someone gets the answer right after you just got it wrong.
11. You just made it through a cold-call even though you didn't read!
12. The gunner in your class really needs to calm down!
13. Trying to get those few extra points or grade bump for class participation?
14. Gain study group allies knowing that in the end you will just be competing against them too.
15. Wait! There's an info session with FREE FOOD?
16. What your parents and friends keep telling you as finals get closer.
17. I get no points for making conclusory analysis on my exam? Can't I just know the Rules?
18. How you feel in that moment right before the start of the final exam.
19. As soon as that final exam starts, collect more points than everyone else.
20. You feel like you deserve a parade after final exams are over.
21. You wound up at the top of the curve after your first semester!
22. The real prize for the Victors: They just have to do it all over again.
23. You couldn't get an internship for your first summer because you fell too low on the curve.
24. Wait! I thought I would get a job, not a bunch of interviews with no offers.
25. Someone just put me out of my misery!
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