October 6, 2005
Round 1
There's something very anticlimactic about getting up early, picking up your suit from the dry-cleaner, heading to school, hammering out a cover letter, retouching a writing sample, perfecting and printing out your resume, picking up a letter of recommendation from a professor, calling the registrar's office, hearing them tell you your transcript is ready to pick up, going to get it, having the guy who actually hands out transcripts tell you it will be ready tomorrow, going home and eating some soup, shaving, showering, putting on your suit, driving down to the courthouse to get another letter of recommendation, being told it won't be ready till 5, leaving a number they can fax it to, getting on the freeway and driving to Portland, sitting and waiting for an hour with several other nervous and well-dressed people, being called in for a 20 minute interview during which you hardly get to talk, being told they'll let you know in two weeks, getting back in the car and driving back to Eugene, taking your suit off, and sitting down to a gimlet and a bit of catatonia.
What did I just do, and couldn't it have been done over the phone?
Of course, colleagues of mine have flown cross country for similar purposes, and FLOGette went along for the ride and didn't actually get interviewed by anyone, so I suppose I can't complain.
Yes, this was about
.Should know in two weeks whether it'll be
or something completely different.
How was your day?
Posted by FLOG at October 6, 2005 8:34 PMThat sounds a lot like what's going on over here -- good to know that law students nationwide are suffering through this crap.
Can't they just take our word for how awesome we are and be done with it?
Posted by: Courtney at October 7, 2005 8:24 AMYeah. Won't someone think of the law students?
Posted by: FLOG at October 7, 2005 9:51 AMAnd the wannabe journalists! My job prospects are even worse than yours. At least your barren Artic wasteland has an observatory with a roof and, quite possibly, indoor plumbing.
Anyway, this is just my way of saying "buck up."
Posted by: Brandon at October 7, 2005 2:34 PMOh, worry not, FLOG is pretty bucked up. I was just in that mood you get in after spending 4 hours on I-5 and winding up right where you started. Plus, I was going for the world record for gerunds in a single sentence. (I managed 32.)
I don't have much to complain about. As I told FLOGette after she offered words of encouragement, "Well, it's not like I'm a fireman or anything." Or, you know, out doing this.
Posted by: FLOG at October 7, 2005 4:08 PM