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Right about now seems as good a time as any for a 1L to be completely stressed out.  Many of us are sleep deprived (after all, OM2 was just…

Law school is expensive. Many of us need to find employment while enrolled in order to pay for various educational and living expenses. John Belanger, a 3L at UConn Law School, found himself a different kind of after-school employment: running an international drug ring. When he moved to Connecticut to begin law school he was recruited to provide legal advice for a four-year-old drug ring that transported Marijuana from Canada into New England. He eventually became a courier and coordinator for a number of the cartel’s marijuana importation schemes.

Just because we’re law students doesn’t make us above the law.  As one example, telling the police “I don’t have to do anything you say – I’m a law student,” is generally a bad idea.…

There are few things worse than getting poor grades as a 1L. Well, actually, there are a lot of things worse than getting poor grades as a 1L, rationally speaking. There are so many problems in our world that haven’t been solved, so much hurt, violence and injustice. What do good grades as a 1L have to do with those these? Do good grades make 1Ls more virtuous? There is little evidence that doing well in law school makes someone a better, or worse, person. One does not need good grades to be, for example, generous or brave. While good grades are sometimes indicative of fortitude or prudence, is it not more important to for 1Ls to wear their kind deeds as medals, their honesty as their class rank?

It’s been brought to our attention that if you’re on the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Plan through BC, you may be eligible for a gym reimbursement!

If you have a gym membership for at…

This past tuesday, Kathryn Beaumont ‘08 guest blogged on “On Balance,” Leslie Morgan Steiner’s work-life balance blog at the Washington Post. In a short essay, the Boston College Law School 3L wrote that women should embrace a new mantra: “We are going to work, we are going to have kids, and we are going to find balance.” She continued: “No drama, no remorse. I am going to do it all, my way: a kick-ass lawyer — and mother.” Read the entire essay here.