Law Students

The Mid-Semester Itch

By BigShow

One of the things that I’ve begun to realize about law school is that each semester, I’m going to have a miniature mid-life crisis. This is like a regular mid-life crisis, except instead of going out and buying a sports car, I just get depressed. I like to think of this as the “Mid-Semester Itch.” It’s sort of like the “Seven Year Itch“, except my XBox 360 plays the part of Marilyn Monroe. The minute the Mid-Semester Itch strikes, I start behaving like an undergrad, ignoring my school work, and my in-class attention span plummets to hyperactive-11-year-old levels.

I’ve tried to figure out exactly what it is that causes this Mid-Semester Itch, and I’ve got a couple of theories:

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Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).