In high school and college, everyone dated everyone. The term ’slut’ was reserved for only the most egregious offenders. Primarily, females who openly slept with more than ten people or males who openly slept with more than twenty. At Harvard Law School, it seems the number for females is two.

A female HLS 1L has purportedly slept with two other HLS 1Ls. While I think any person who sleeps with two Harvard Law males is an idiot, I’m extremely uncomfortable with the rampant ’slut’ accusations. We are Harvard Law students after all. Quite possibly the most intelligent group of law students and we resort to treating a woman poorly because she slept with two of us? What the fuck guys?

I understand that, in our culture, women are the guardians of sex. According to my crappy college psych textbook, since men require less mental stimuli to enjoy sex, they generally have a smaller emotional investment the act. Because of this disparity, women are socially expected to sleep with less men, as they have to open themselves up emotionally to partake. One would think, given the act’s standard 1:1 ratio, that the same amount of men have slept with the same amount of women.

And personally, I have mixed feelings about the double standard. At this point in my life, I have an urge to sleep with every moderately attractive woman I meet. I’m probably accurately defined as a slut; I’ve certainly slept with more than two HLS females. That said, I’m never going to care about someone who just up and lets me sleep with them. As such, I hold women to a higher standard than men.

Regardless, every single HLS 1L who has called this classmate a slut is a certifiable idiot. I’ll be the first to admit that lawcest is extremely unprofessional and always a mistake, but so is churning a harmless situation until it becomes something that could damage someone’s career.

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On grades, I did better than I anticipated: two HPs. This does not prove that I’m intelligent, it only proves that law school is a gigantic joke. I gave each class a few days but primarily, I just focused on any material that seemed of particular importance to the professor. I already committed my entire summer to one employer but in retrospect, I probably could have done even better if I waited. I hear only about a quarter of the 1Ls will find reputable firm work this summer so I shouldn’t be complaining.