Top Five Reasons to Drop Out of Social Sciences and Go To Law School:
This post is long overdue, but now I have a break for about a week.

So, it turns out that I love law school.
What's even worse is that I love it unconditionally. That means that even if I flunk my exams and score in the bottom 5% of my class and never find employment in the legal field, I will still have to admit that I loved law school.

Law school gets a bad rap. Many people hate law school. That is because they have never attended any other type of graduate program. So this here post is dedicated to all my classmates at the school psychology programs that we have endured together. 

Top Five Reasons to Drop Out of Social Sciences  and Go To Law School:

5. Remember how the first day of classes was spent playing ice-breaker games and reading the syllabus word by word?
Well, in law school, the syllabus is posted on line and you are expected to show up having read the first assignment and prepared to discuss the assigned cases. No classes end early on the first day. Or any other day.

4. Remember how you could miss a week, even two of social science classes and come back and they'd all still be talking about the same thing?
Well, in law school, if you miss a day or two, you are in big trouble and better get the notes and even better yet, arrange to have the classes taped. Moreover, you just feel like you are missing stuff. Like you are missing out on all the great discussions.

3. Remember how there were no tests in graduate school? Only endless powerpoint projects that you did in groups and spend entire classes presenting to each other? Remember the end term papers that you copied from class to class and how the professors never seemed to catch on or care that you used the same damn paper for 5 classes already? 
In law school, there are exams. They are scary and they are open book, but the books don't help because you don't have time to open them. You have to know the material inside-out, how to apply it and which issues the jurisdictions might possibly disagree on. You only have three hours for each exam.

2. Remember how the professor would speak and no one would challenge him? Remember how the word of the professor was the word of God Himself and may He have mercy upon the student who begged to differ?  
Yeah, in law school, our professors ask us each day to come up with an opposing argument. They openly tell us that they prefer those perspectives that challenge theirs. When I ask a question in class now, the professor is very likely to ask me what I think about my own question and then play devil's advocate against my opinion.  Or he might ask the person sitting next to me to say what he thinks about my question and then ask someone else to argue against both of us.

1. Remember how you would look at the clock and desperately will the hands to move faster? Remember how each class was endless and you had to fill up the empty space in your head by planning dinner menus for the next three weeks?

In law school, we barely delve into a topic and the professor tells us that our time is up.  And then a crowd of ten-fifteen people stays after each and every class to debate and discuss whatever cases the professor didn't assign but they read anyway.  

So yes, we are all nerds. But we are happy nerds. Drop out of social sciences and come to law school with us.