| This draft reflects well both the excitement involved in working as
an intern in a practice that values its ability to inspire law
students, and the ambivalence that comes from combining adult
responsibilities in existing networks of personal relationship with
the process of intellectual exploration and self-discovery. The
combination of (relatively) naive excitement and (relatively) sober
thought about long-term consequences is not the environment for
making life decisions. It's good that you've decided to return to
law school; in the next two years, your ideas about your own practice
will mature, leading you to some tentative conclusions around which
you will begin to shape your post-graduation practice. The sober
realities of adult life will not abate, though they may change. Your
practice will be one of the primary vehicles, along with the new
relationships you form, for dealing with your long-existing adult
responsibilities from within a newly adult life.
I don't know what editing should be done here. In my view, it would
be better to begin a new project soon, writing not about what was,
but once again about what is happening.
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