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The Anxiety Over Freedom

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  in a good way. I can't believe we have reached the point where this is not only possible, but no one calls them on it.
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Actually, this didn't quite happen - though something more appalling (in my opinion) did. During the first week or so of Legal Methods, a student made a joke that everyone here was so accomplished and driven that she expected to be required to submit a resume to join a study group. That likely got taken out of context to create the rumor, and derision teemed (in the small pockets of student whispers and not in open confrontation - very high school of us). The real disgusting thing is that some other student - who I assume must have heard the rumor early on in the semester - posted the rumor as fact on a website that lots of law students read the day before our first exam. That was the unbelievable, despicable act for me. - Stephen Severo
 The exterior pressures imposed on the 1L student create a set of fears and anxieties that all suggest that one’s best is not good enough. While Mr. Robinson is not “beholden” to anyone, the 1L seems bound and weighed down by everything. The issue is that freedom seems bound to everything and contingent on everything but the character of the self. At every turn, it seems that external pressures and “advisors” have input and advice to offer to suggest what exactly freedom is. This imposition makes it hard for the 1L student to determine or even begin to ask questions that are a result of their own thought process and discovery. Undoubtedly others’ anxiety, desire for competition, and fears swallow even the most level-headed and rational 1L student.

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