2008 Woodie Awards
God, I Am So Prestigious
Andrea Saenz
Issue date: 1/19/06 Section: Opinion
But I was in Teach For America. Helping poor kids out of the goodness of your heart is unprestigious. I should have tried consulting, or investment banking. Maybe I can dig that McKinsey flyer out of my trash can.
My husband goes to Chicago. Everyone knows Chicago is full of intense, genius, law-and-economics-obsessed conservatives who spend their free time in the student lounge building statues of Epstein and Posner out of dollar bills. That's super prestigious. I know I ruined his biglaw dreams, but maybe that Chicago vibe can still rub off on me.
Oh man, I've done a bunch of volunteer work, though. Immigrants and disabled kids and whatnot. And I went to a state school. With a humanities major. And I'm liberal, and a feminist. And I bought these jeans at Robinson's-May, and I think I'm wearing socks that don't match. This is looking bad. Seppuku may be my only option. That, or a transfer to Thomas M. Cooley School of Law.
My quest to be uber-prestigious is in dire straits, and I'm only one semester in. Maybe I'm screwed. Maybe I'm doomed to a life of upper-middle-class mediocrity, a life of spending time with my husband and future kids. Living on two decent lawyer incomes and buying things I actually have the time to use. Having a job that makes the most of my skills and values - a job that doesn't even come with magazine rankings! God, that's depressing. Hold me.
Andrea Saenz, 1L, is from Long Beach, CA. She kids because she loves.
My husband goes to Chicago. Everyone knows Chicago is full of intense, genius, law-and-economics-obsessed conservatives who spend their free time in the student lounge building statues of Epstein and Posner out of dollar bills. That's super prestigious. I know I ruined his biglaw dreams, but maybe that Chicago vibe can still rub off on me.
Oh man, I've done a bunch of volunteer work, though. Immigrants and disabled kids and whatnot. And I went to a state school. With a humanities major. And I'm liberal, and a feminist. And I bought these jeans at Robinson's-May, and I think I'm wearing socks that don't match. This is looking bad. Seppuku may be my only option. That, or a transfer to Thomas M. Cooley School of Law.
My quest to be uber-prestigious is in dire straits, and I'm only one semester in. Maybe I'm screwed. Maybe I'm doomed to a life of upper-middle-class mediocrity, a life of spending time with my husband and future kids. Living on two decent lawyer incomes and buying things I actually have the time to use. Having a job that makes the most of my skills and values - a job that doesn't even come with magazine rankings! God, that's depressing. Hold me.
Andrea Saenz, 1L, is from Long Beach, CA. She kids because she loves.