Welp, I'm trudging through my law school applications as we speak. I've rewritten my personal statement once, and now I have to do it again. I'm lining up recommendations all over, and meeting with intimidatingly successful people to try to get advice and help wherever I can.
The funniest thing is that I recently talked to another Carnegie Mellon alumnus who is now a professor of Intellectual Property law, and he thought that law school was a piece of cake if you could get through Computer Science at CMU... It was actually pretty funny to hear him talk about it... According to him, since most of the people in law school studied history or English or something, they have no clue what it's like to stay up all night coding in Prolog or solving differential equations... ;) He may have a point. I hope it's true, at least... ;)
And becoming a lawyer is going to get you over your disillusionment of working in software development? Hmmm. interesting approach.
Yeah, I guess it sounds weird.
But, I need something new and interesting to do, and I need a job where I'll work more with other people, and do less drudgery and more difficult thinking.
I don't really want to write software anymore, but I still like learning about the technology. As a patent lawyer I'd be able to apply my knowledge of software in a different way -- i.e. i wouldn't have to actually write code. I'd be writing patent applications and briefs and researching for litigation, etc...
Also, I think I'd be happier with the compensation, which I feel is meager in software, especially when you're putting in the same number of hours that the lawyers put in...
There are a lot of issues... I just think it will be a much more varied, meaningful, and rewarding job, basically...
Posted by: Trevor Hill at October 11, 2002 01:38 PM
Posted by: M Sinclair Stevens at October 11, 2002 01:22 PM