‘Being a law student is so hard.’
I don’t have a life, but that’s what I signed up for.
— Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy, commenting on his experiences at Harvard Law School thus far. Schlossberg is a first-year student at the Ivy League law school, and went on to say how “cool” it is that students “get to learn all day.” Like many law students, he has no idea what he’s going to do with his law degree.
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