University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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REFLECTIONS . . . How do you sum up three years here? You can't really pack an experience six semesters long into a couple. of neat paragraphs. I suppose one of the reasons it's so hard is that we never really think about such things. Thoughts of why we're here, what we're trying to accomplish, or where we're going never occupy our minds for any length of time, except in the rare instances when we begin to wonder whether we're going to flunk out, or when we feel the draft board breathing down our necks. But in fact we were here for three years, and now what are we leaving, and what are we taking with us? I guess every freshman property teacher has at one time or another said that Law School doesn't teach you the law, it teaches you how to think like a lawyer. As anybody who has worked as aclerk, or in Legal Aid, could tell you, a person has to act like a human being, as well as like alegal machine, if he's goingto reach other human beings. And looked at from that viewpoint, probably Flick's and the Bell, Christmans and Thanksgiving dinners at the Club, TGS, and 2:30 bull sessions help to educate the lawyer, too. They help to provide some sort ofa balance between the social adept and the guy who can recite all 47 of the exceptions to the rule against per- petuities fwith citesj. A lawyer who is all one of those and one of the other is probably not going to enjoy either the law or life. You do learn the law here, probably learn it as well as, or better than, at any place in the country. Michigan has not only the best teachers,but by far the best cans. . . But you take away something else, too. Maybe it's just a sense of accomplishment at having gotten in, and stayed in. But whatever it is it makes you feel, when you're interviewing for a job or making small talk with a date, that it's worthwhile to say not I went to Law School but I went to Michigan.