Hi Everybody!
I'm riding the high of just having finished my internship so I thought I'd put all my feelings down on (virtual) paper before I forget them. I cannot believe I'm done! This experience has been so good for me, as I've figured out a few things that will guide my next two years in law school.
First off, I really need to decide if I want to do corporate law or not. This week I spent half the time down in corp and while the team was amazing, I'm wondering if the job is the right fit for me. As my boss put it, "there's not a lot of law in corporate law," and it's so true. It's mostly putting out fires between a bunch of clients that don't want to play nice with each other and throw temper tantrums on the regular. Let's just say in my time down in corporate, a good amount of objects were tossed around with a good amount of swearing whenever a deal went south or a client was being particularly difficult. However, I will admit that the clients were interesting along with the casework. I think it's safe to say transactional work is my forte.
Second, I know that it is totally unrealistic to expect to get off at 5:30 pm when I actually start working in a law firm for real, but it has been so nice to tune out work and actually have a life after clocking out. I feel like I'm never really done with school, and I'm usually working well into midnight and then early the next morning, which in all fairness will prepare me for the awful 24 marathons at the firm. But this week after work I got to go to a sustainability in fashion lecture with Jes, which by the way was so interesting. Did you know you can re-purpose fishing nets into thread to make swimsuits? After the talks, Jes and I got a nice greek dinner and chatted away. (She had to keep her fingers on everything we were going to order so we wouldn't forget)
Obviously between the two of us we simply can't both look good in a picture. So here is a series of attempts at taking a nice photo lol.
Finally, I'm really going to miss all my coworkers, especially Emma (my handler). It's so crazy how you can make a little home for yourself in no time. So when it came time to say goodbye, everyone told me how much they'd miss having me around. I tried to be helpful as much as possible, but a lot of the times there wasn't really work for me to do. So I was genuinely surprised when I was told that I would be missed! I felt like I didn't contribute much, until I realized just generally being available and ready to work, having a good attitude, and being kind goes a long way. Which I probably should have realized sooner, but in the US I feel like I've been praised in my past work experience for working hard and always taking up any task no matter how big or small (ie packing up 300 boxes for the partners' retreat vs critical thinking research). So it was nice to see that just having a good personality can positively impact the work space even as an intern. I mean it's not every day that the doorman says he hopes to see you come back as a qualified attorney!
Hopefully I haven't bored you to death. Mom's coming this Sunday so be prepared for adventures!
Lots of love,
Carolyn
I'm riding the high of just having finished my internship so I thought I'd put all my feelings down on (virtual) paper before I forget them. I cannot believe I'm done! This experience has been so good for me, as I've figured out a few things that will guide my next two years in law school.
First off, I really need to decide if I want to do corporate law or not. This week I spent half the time down in corp and while the team was amazing, I'm wondering if the job is the right fit for me. As my boss put it, "there's not a lot of law in corporate law," and it's so true. It's mostly putting out fires between a bunch of clients that don't want to play nice with each other and throw temper tantrums on the regular. Let's just say in my time down in corporate, a good amount of objects were tossed around with a good amount of swearing whenever a deal went south or a client was being particularly difficult. However, I will admit that the clients were interesting along with the casework. I think it's safe to say transactional work is my forte.
Second, I know that it is totally unrealistic to expect to get off at 5:30 pm when I actually start working in a law firm for real, but it has been so nice to tune out work and actually have a life after clocking out. I feel like I'm never really done with school, and I'm usually working well into midnight and then early the next morning, which in all fairness will prepare me for the awful 24 marathons at the firm. But this week after work I got to go to a sustainability in fashion lecture with Jes, which by the way was so interesting. Did you know you can re-purpose fishing nets into thread to make swimsuits? After the talks, Jes and I got a nice greek dinner and chatted away. (She had to keep her fingers on everything we were going to order so we wouldn't forget)
Obviously between the two of us we simply can't both look good in a picture. So here is a series of attempts at taking a nice photo lol.
Finally, I'm really going to miss all my coworkers, especially Emma (my handler). It's so crazy how you can make a little home for yourself in no time. So when it came time to say goodbye, everyone told me how much they'd miss having me around. I tried to be helpful as much as possible, but a lot of the times there wasn't really work for me to do. So I was genuinely surprised when I was told that I would be missed! I felt like I didn't contribute much, until I realized just generally being available and ready to work, having a good attitude, and being kind goes a long way. Which I probably should have realized sooner, but in the US I feel like I've been praised in my past work experience for working hard and always taking up any task no matter how big or small (ie packing up 300 boxes for the partners' retreat vs critical thinking research). So it was nice to see that just having a good personality can positively impact the work space even as an intern. I mean it's not every day that the doorman says he hopes to see you come back as a qualified attorney!
Hopefully I haven't bored you to death. Mom's coming this Sunday so be prepared for adventures!
Lots of love,
Carolyn
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