In all reality, Harvard Law School is still on break. The current “classes” are a joke. Being at Harvard though, where apparently everyone is required to take everything seriously, we remain just as miserable as pre-break. But I’m not going to bore you with details about what Harvard Law School thinks we should know about becoming a lawyer. Instead I’m going to talk about drugs at HLS.

There is a the bizarre pothead siutation at HLS. I went to a state school so I’ve obviously enjoyed my fair share of the drug, but there is a group of HLS students numbering in the high thirties who seem, as a whole, to take the drug far more seriously than any entity I’ve ever encountered. The strangest thing about it all? They aren’t any more mellow than the rest of us! They are just as gunnerish as their non-pothead colleagues; they merely smell substantially worse.

The potheads are, of course, better than their hyper Adderall abusing counterparts. (Note: I used Adderall a few times last semester, though not out of academic concern.) Combining additional alertness and paranoia with the intense stress of law school creates a terrible, wicked beast. I’ve often stumbled into these people in the library, where they surround themselves with seemingly random books, taking up as much space as possible. They are the same guys who walked into the open book exams with a more useless than not, hand-bound, two-hundred page outline. They are also the people who answer class questions completely without logic.

It’s not a bad strategy though, as the professors do not seem to know how to handle completely illogical answers. They just move on and call on someone else. It’s far better than someone who gives a stupid yet nearly accurate answer, which the professor uses an excuse to explore parts of the issue that nobody gives two shits about.

And so I get to what I actually want to talk about. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ALL DOING? I’ve read about the FBI and the CIA asking about drug use as frivolous as pot and Adderall and forcing applicants to take a polygraph to confirm their answers. In the toughest legal job market in history, it seems extremely stupid to basically opt out of a large quantity of job opportunities.

You are probably wondering now – “But you just said you did the drugs too.” Yeah but I already have paying summer employment at a firm. I’m doing very well in school. I’m not one of the bottom barrel HLS students who are not going to get biglaw. Unless the government starts doubling salaries, I have no interest in working in the public sector. Quite frankly, even if I wanted to work for the government, my $2000+ loan payment would prevent such dreams from coming to fruition.

I don’t even know what I’m trying to say with this post. I suppose I’ll leave it at:

Never do drugs in excess. If you are going to do drugs, make sure you will not need to work for the government in the future.

God I suck.

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