Ordinary Girl Tip: Always look behind you and watch your back

If you ever watched "Legally Blonde" you get a bird's eye view to how people are in law school. Many of them are overly pretentious, fake and very cutthroat. Of course in the movies they take these stereotypes to the extreme. However, you must remember stereotypes do have an element of truth, the stereotype just simply exaggerates it. When I first moved to Michigan in 2009, I came in only knowing 2 people (both of them were not going to the same school as me.) Essentially, I was coming in alone. I did not know a living soul and walking through the hallway for the first time, I got a pit in my stomach everyone was pretty much like all the pretentious douchebags that were depicted in Legally Blonde.
Thankfully, not everyone is acts that way at Detroit Mercy. However, it does not eliminate the fact that there are some people who are a bunch of douchebags; they are at every law school you would ever encounter.

This caricature at law school does not ring true til you encounter one (or several) yourself. From experience, it's not far and you want to stay as far away as you possibly can. I have had people before twist my words around, starts fights with people to the point where I finally said enough. Last time I checked I came to law school to get a degree not to deal with losers and douchebags. Sadly, fake people run a muck in law school but the worst is when those people tell you everything you want to hear only to find they are just as fake as the person they dislike the most. So what to do?

Stay away. That's impossible and impractical.

Mind your own business. Law schools are small, easier said than done.

Surround yourself with good and like-minded people. Close enough.

The last option is probably the most practical and feasible out of the three. You cannot just stay the hell away from everyone, it's just too hard. You cannot mind your business because then everyone will start prying into your business. I think from my encounters that surrounding yourself with like minded and good people is the best way to go. Drama is minimized, as if you already to worry about. Your worries should not have to be compounded by people trying drag you down by aspect possible. You feel like yourself, you don't have to try *that* hard, you don't look over your shoulder several times over. At Detroit Mercy, we got a running gag, once you tell someone something private, at least 5 people will know as soon as you say something. Not everyone is to be trusted because not everyone is like minded as you are. In law school you run out of things to do after reading, researching, briefing and outline so doing something at someone's expense is the next logical thing to do for some. Is it right? No but each to their own on that one.

As the second half of my law school career starts on Monday, I tend to take this tip to heart. It's the only way to keep yourself sane and happy.