As a prospective law student, you might be thinking about how to prepare for the 1L year. Should you get a head start by reading Torts study guides? Start drafting cover letters for feeder judges? Naaah.

I am working hard to finish this post. Why? Because I am going to a taping of The Colbert Report this evening. Am I excited? Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit lower federal courts from sitting in direct review of state court decisions??

My striped necktie clashed with my checked-pattern shirt. My skin was dangerously unmoisturized, my hair unconditioned. I was, in short, a sartorial mess when I started my summer internship at Estée Lauder.

I spent my four undergraduate years in Oberlin, Ohio, so when I was looking at law schools, I wanted something different. I wanted to live in a big city. I wanted to get away from a traditional “campus.” NYU Law seemed perfect.