A Swan Song You wait, and you wait --all you ever want is for the work to pay off. Until it does. And then you get here. Where the sun comes out and it’s the middle of April. For 3Ls, graduation is literally days away. The countdown has begun. Some of us have been counting down since we started. Waiting for the moment when the announcements would be real and the logistics were all in place. For some, the reality of it all, the finality of three years being over, feels like jumping off a cliff. And so right now, we cling to what we have left. There is a safety in this place. This building. In the familiar faces, the pace, the consistency. This is where we spend our time. Where, for better or worse, we learned and studied, we carved out a piece of the law for ourselves somewhere along the way here in these hallways. We made friends, got some golden stories, ate too much vending machine food. We have made mistakes and danced in our victories. Here. Soon it is going
