By: Eleanor (“Nell”) Tebbetts (JD ’21) with a Preface and Afterword by Professor Abigail L. Perdue
Preface: Each spring during our final session, I invite my first-year Legal Writing students to complete an ungraded reflection exercise. I provide several prompts, one of which encourages each student to write a short letter to the person he or she was on the first day of law school. Nell’s funny and candid letter is reprinted below with her permission.
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Dear August 2018 Nell,
So here are the two things that really matter:
- Yes, you can do this…
- but you’re not always going to be the best anymore. Continue reading “Everything is Fine”