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AngeloAngelinoSecondEssay 3 - 27 May 2018 - Main.EbenMoglen
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Don’t Force the Square Peg in the Round Hole | | | I think that one of my greatest strengths is in understanding how others work and how they act. Although I am grateful for this opportunity to be surrounded by types of personalities that I have never experienced before, (not to be too dramatic) Columbia Law School has an environment that is toxic for social development. My first semester here contributed very little to my conception of the law and, if anything, was detrimental to my understanding of lawyering. For many, their only “passion” is to get good grades or to work for the best firm. However, this semester, the combination of surrounding myself by people who make me excited about being a lawyer, avoiding people who need to suck you into the drama of the grading curve, and Law and Contemporary Society has surely contributed to this realization that I feel silly to not have had earlier.
Although I am sure I had a good reason to come to law school, I don’t know how I decided without truly understanding how I wanted to lawyer. Now, whether it be with startups or starting my own practice to work with different artists, I know how I want to be the lawyer that surrounds myself with people of passion. | |
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A good draft, showing how you have used the materials you brought
with you to begin fashioning your professional life.
The loss of learning history for learning marketing gives me a pang; I
can't prevent myself from wishing that you have other chances to
gain from reading history seriously all that the effort has brought me
over the decades.
What would improve this draft is some further immersion in the
subject of the current enthusiasm. You can say less about
sports—not by dropping any of your ideas but by losing some
unnecessary words—in order to consider two other matters.
First, what are "startups"? New businesses in general, particular
sorts of businesses, particular sorts of people? Second, built on
the first, what should be in your license and your network in order
to build a practice in "working for startups"? How can you use law
school best to get the results in the license and the people in the
network? These are merely speculations now, of course. And what
you are passionate about may change. But it is very productive to
practice thinking, well, practically, about your speculations.
That's how strategy is made.
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