- Let's just go
to the next one! - Just sit on
separate sides of the library.
- My dad's gonna see this.
Sorry Dad!
(playful music)
My name is Bekki.
- I'm Rameses.
- Hi, I'm Jelena.
- Hi, I'm Rachel.
- And we're playing Never Have I Ever: Law School Edition.
Never have I ever cheated on a test.
In law school?
I have not.
I have thought about it.
- It's impossible.
During those two to four hour exams,
you have at least three people walking around looking.
- Yeah.
And they wait for you outside of the bathroom and time you.
- I have not.
I'm like a real goody goody.
- Yeah, same.
- Like, I feel like by the time I got to law school,
I was like, I can miss class, I can do, but I was (mumbles).
- Yeah, same.
- I did cheat on an exam once in junior high.
- Oh, well high school doesn't count.
- Never have I ever thought about
or actually rage-quit law school.
- I don't think I, not rage-quit,
it's been like very meditative.
Like I feel like I've thought about it in yoga.
- Introspective.
- Yeah, like, what do I do?
But not, no rage-quitting.
- No.
- I have been so angry and so upset
that I have considered walking out of law school,
and had it not cost so much money I might have.
- I did too, but then I realized
that I didn't have scholarships,
and I needed to be there
because I was paying a lot of money for it.
- Yeah, yeah, this is normal.
That's normal!
Never have I ever come to school under the influence.
- No.
- I have not.
- That is a big no!
Our school was a kind of conservative,
Christian dry campus.
You wouldn't show up to law school under the influence
and certainly not at the school that we went to.
- Does bar prep count?
- Drinks are cheaper during the week,
as a law student you are broke,
so you go out and take advantage of those happy hours.
- I had my first hangover during bar prep
and came in still kind of drunk,
throwing up on the basement,
in the bathroom of the basement of a Korean church.
- Never have I ever dated another lawyer/person in law.
- All my boyfriends.
- I have gone on dates a few times.
It's not been something that I thought I would ever do
because you're around them all the time.
- It kind of becomes incestuous.
- I think it resulted in like,
more arguments than anything
'cause it's like you both
take different stances on whatever,
you know, second amendment. - Yeah.
- What's your definition of "dating?"
I have had relations with a lawyer
who did go to law school at the same time as us.
Okay, more than one now that I think about it.
- Well, never hurt nobody.
And then when it's all done,
- Let's go to the next one!
Let's just go
to the next one - You sit on
separate sides of the library.
- My dad's gonna see this.
Sorry Dad!
- Never have I ever fallen asleep in class.
- No, haven't.
- Not during law school.
- I have.
Sometimes those professors get up there and just, like,
"Today, we're going to talk about civil procedure."
And I'm just like, "Oh my gosh."
- Aw, I love civil procedure!
- Not everything's exciting.
- Never have I ever failed an exam.
- I've not, I have not.
There are some exams maybe I didn't do that well on.
- Yeah!
- If you fail one, I mean the thing that scared me was,
you would have to retake it.
- Not in law school.
- No, that's not an option.
Your entire grade is that one exam
at the end of the semester,
so there's no other like,
things to hold you up.
And if somebody, "Oh can I make up extra credit?"
Like, no, there is none of that.
They're like, "You're gonna take this class again.
And then you're gonna be put on academic probation."
- Yeah, or they just ask you to leave, like, school.
- Never have I ever thought I made the wrong decision
about going into law school.
- I have thought that I made the wrong decision
by going to law school, and some days I still think that.
- I mean, I think I have.
- Uh.
- You haven't.
- My dad was an attorney,
so when I was younger I used to watch him go with, like,
his briefcase and he looked very important.
Growing up, I did like acting a little
so I kind of thought it would be like,
- In a court room
- Yeah, you know, like,
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury" type thing.
So, I think once I made my decision I stuck with it.
- Um, law school itself is very hard,
it involves a lot of tears.
Being a lawyer - I had that decision
at least once a week.
- Yeah, being a lawyer is very hard,
it still involves a lot of tears.
So, yeah, I definitely sometimes wonder
how different my life would be if I didn't go.
- Never have I ever had to pull an all-nighter.
- Pretty much every class.
- I have, every class.
Every class.
- Yeah.
I used to 'cause I was on the moot court team,
and I had friends on law review and law journal
and so I used to collect keys to the offices through campus
so I could sleep on campus.
- I had spent, I would take nights off of law school,
like there were nights where I'm like, you know,
"I'm just not going to do the reading tonight,
"'cause then you need to go out."
- But like have you ever pulled an all-nighter for studying?
- Yeah, when I'd had those two nights of going out
- Oh.
- then it was like, "Okay, I'm a little behind now,
"maybe I should, like, catch up."
And, much to my detriment,
I would spend all night reading and catching up.
Never have I ever thought I was going to fail after 1L,
which is first year.
- I have not after 1L.
During, after first semester I went home to Arizona
and I was getting my hair done,
and my hair girl found bald patches from stress.
I went to the bar I worked at and asked my old manager
if I could have my job back, in case I failed out.
But then after those grades came in,
and after second semester's grades came in,
my GPA was at a point that I knew
it would be more difficult to fail out than not.
- Once you get through the first year,
you pretty much know how to do law school after that.
- I was like, every time we got any grade back,
- Yeah, 'cause it's on a curve, right,
so it's a constant competition.
- Every time finals set in it was like,
I knew that curve was gonna bite me in the ass.
- Yeah, I guess it's like a worry
every time finals season rolls around.
- Never have I ever gone out drinking with friends
after we all thought we failed an important exam.
- Dancing
- Dancing, karaoke,
- drink-aoke,
- something.
- Anything to forget about the misery.
(music stops suddenly)
- I like, after an exam, okay
So you're minimum exam is two hours,
and they can be up to four hours straight.
I was always so genuinely emotionally
and physically exhausted,
that even if I wanted to,
I just wanted to go home and sleep.
- Opposite.
- I'm glad we were able to share our experiences.
- You don't have to ace law school to get a job.
- Everyone has their own experience with law school.
- And it's different in every state.
- Yeah, it's different for every person,
it's different by school,
and you should never feel pressured
to do it someone else's way.
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