I was reading back a few entries in Kevin Heller's blog when I noticed something I must have skimmed over in the first read. In this entry, Kevin remarks, "Man, I miss law school."
When I was in law school, I joked that lawyers who said things like that scared me. Well, half-joked.
Okay, now that there's a little distance (both temporal and spatial) between me and law school, I'm happy to say that there are some things about law school I miss, and there are definitely some people from law school who I miss. But I sure can't say that I miss it on the whole.
Now I just need to pay all those student loans....
What I mostly miss is sleeping late most days.
I had some days when I didn't have class until 10 or even 11, but it rarely made a difference because I was always awake until 2 or 3 a.m. My schedule was skewed, but I still averaged only 5-6 hours of sleep a night my first year and 6 or so every year after that (more on weekends, usually). My body likes 7.5 to 8 hours of sleep, so keeping that kind of schedule persistently was very difficult.
I think there were a few semesters that I had Fridays off, but I usually filled them with clinic or journal obligations.