Who Says You Can't Go Home?

Who says you can't go home? Not Jon Bon Jovi…not Richie Sambora…and neither of the Freitas twins. This week marked the return of most of the JD/MPH class of 2010 back to NUSL and, we have to say, it was a little bittersweet. On the bitter side, law books are expensive, NUSL professors are determined to rob all students of their lives with their gargantuan assigned readings, and the past year at Tufts was great. On the sweet side, NUSL lockers are at least 4 times larger than Tufts’, printing is free, and we got to see most of our friends from 1L.

Being back in law school is still so new to us that after reading a particularly lawerly segment in the bioethics book, I said, “hey, this is just like when I was in law school” ….and then Deb reminded me, we are back in law school!

All in all, we were relieved to see that little had changed since we had left—Cargill still alternates from 100 degrees to 30 degrees in a little over an hour, familiar 1L faculty still wave and stop to talk, administrators (?) who neither of us have ever met still say hi to us, and the microwave in the locker room still has burnt food all over it (despite the “extremely reasonable community rules”).

The transition from Tufts to NUSL wasn’t worth losing a wink of sleep over, NUSL is still NUSL. And what of the fear that everyone else would be spewing out case law like it's their second language? Not to worry, everyone else had forgotten most of the holdings from the con law, contracts, and crim cases we read first year too...but who else can say they got to know what public health practice is like? Welcome back to law school!

-C&D