Sometime last week, I was on my way to work when I bumped into three of my classmates. About thirty minutes earlier, we had a class meeting about graduation, job searches, bar passage rates, and all of the stuff that generally scares your typical third year law student. I was lamenting about the expenses we were about to enDure for bar applications, the bar exam itself, taking the bar prep class, moving, etc.
I was in the middle of talking about how it expensive it was to move from one societal class to the other, when my classmate interrupted me with what would become the focal point of this blog post:
“Look man, you either have to buy your way in or steal your way in.”
I guess you could say this was a moment where everything sort of “clicked.” If there is one thing the pursuit of (even) higher education has taught me, it would be the notion that this system is more focused on keeping people OUT, than getting people in. As a person who is going through the motions of trying to get to a certain level of achievement, I’m sometimes lost on just how many obstacles I’ve crossed to get here.
We could converse about blood, sweat, tears, lonely nights, sacrifices, missed opportunities, and time spent if that’s where I wanted to go. For this particular purpose I’d like to focus on one thing.
Money.
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September 30th, 2011 → 2:35 pm
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