16.09.24

16.09.24

“When a friend calls to me from the road / And slows his horse to a meaning walk, / I don’t stand still and look around / On all the hills I haven’t hoed, / And shout from where I am, What is it? / No, not as there is a time to talk.” —Robert Frost

We’re almost two weeks in, and I think I’m doing an ok job of balancing everything. I’ve been able to stay ahead and on track while still finding time to exist as a human outside of law school. As a substantial marker of improvement, I have lots to do yet somehow feel like I’ve got this? Maybe I haven’t killed 3lol after all.

P.S. Both applications got accepted! Doing another moot as well as a full-semester crim practicum !

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

THEY KEEP ASKING ME IF I WOULD DIE FOR THEM AND I KEEP ASKING WHY THEY WANT ME DEAD

doomed by the narrative? couldn't be me, i doomed the narrative myself

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

I had a professor in college who used to start solving every problem with the same dialogue.

Proff: What’s the first step to solving any problem? Class: Don’t panic. Proff: And why is that? Class: Because we know more than we think we do.

I think about that a lot tbh. It didn’t occur to me until much later that he meant for us to apply that dialogue outside of the classroom to any problem. Because we always know more than we think we do. We are all an amalgam of random information that ends up being relevant with surprising frequency.