Clerkships Away, Now I Just Hold My Breath...
Back from Maine, six days until classes start.
I have all my books and most first-day assignments and will (with a little sadness and a bit of countering excitement) soon start reading for next week. I am also a TA for the Legal Research and Writing component of first-years' LSSC course, and have to read all that they read. Good times. Let the onslaught juggernaut of the quarter officially begin.
Around making my way through The Kite Runner, which I've nearly completed, and which is powerful and fantastic, I am still sending out resumes and cover letters for post-grad jobs and for clerkships. As of last night around 2am, I sent out the last and final of my clerkship applications.
I wish there was confetti to celebrate: I now have applications in for federal and state clerkships. And now I must play the waiting game. Good thing I'll be busy.
As far as post-grad jobs go, I am applying to them like a fiend. Jobs I would all love, but essentially contingency plans in the event I don't get a clerkship. I even have one interview already, scheduled for mid-September. Hopefully, I will soon have others lined up. I am eager to write about all of them specifically--jobs and clerkships--and specific trials and tribulations and bumps I encountered while applying, but I am over-eager to not damn myself. I will write about it all once there are decisions one way or the other. What I can say at this juncture--start early. Some advised that I started way too early, researching in the spring and early summer, contacting my recommenders in the spring and having them pump out drafts by mid-summer. I disagree. When you are applying to clerkships, and then start applying for jobs simultaneously, and, then at NUSL, start applying for Winter co-op the moment you're back into classes, the earlier you can feasibly start the better.
Alright, I'm off to the gym. Or to The Kite Runner, we'll see which grabs me first. Last night I wanted to read the book, couldn't wait to sit down and grab it, then I got sidetracked with putting a final gloss on a writing sample, eating pizza and watching the original "Ghostbusters." What a fantastic, fantastic film. I think it might be the first movie I ever remember watching.
More to come...