JD syndrome
Everyone says law school isn’t about learning so much as learning to think differently. This, I’ve discovered, is entirely true. I wouldn’t mind it so much, if not for the fact that, as it turns out, people can only think one way. Law school doesn’t teach you another way to think. It just plain changes the way you do it. I call it JD syndrome.
Within a few weeks you stop asking yourself whether something makes sense but rather whether "the reasonable person" would do it, as if such a thing exists. As if there’s some guy out there wearing a "reasonable guy" ribbon who walks around building fences around pools and not spilling hot coffee on himself. And if there is, he sounds like a really boring dude and I want nothing to do with him.
I was talking about this with Joe, a friend from class, a couple days ago and he said it’s definitely been having the same effect on him. The night before, he’d gone to see this new musical called "Altar Boyz." Apparently it’s some play about a Christian boy band, who go through the same trials and tribulations as a "normal" boy band: They get together, become best friends, become famous, get huge egos, then start infighting, break up and sign solo contracts. Finally, at what Joe called
"the only sincere moment of the play," the guys realize they can’t live without each other and get back together, to the audience’s extreme satisfaction. "And I couldn’t enjoy it," Joe tells me, "because I kept wondering how the hell they were going to get out of their newly-signed solo contracts." I rest my case.
