The Adventures of Chester: And the Verdict Is . . .

My post in July about trying to figure out if I should attend law school (To Law, or Not to Law) received much more attention that I expected. There were over a hundred very intelligent comments and much great career advice. In addition, the Instapundit himself weighed in after I asked his advice, and the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog considered my conundrum as well.

So after all of that, after meeting with yet another professor, spending a weekend with a friend who is a rising third year student, talking to some family friends, having a beer with a JD who's now a PhD candidate, etc, my decision is . . .

[drumroll]

. . . this Marine will not be going to law school.

I could offer you some well-reasoned and craftily-put statement as to how I determined that the ends did not justify the means, or that the cost was too prohibitive, or that the benefits weren't that great and so forth.

But the truth of the matter is that my gut tells me not to go to law school.

I have some other adventures in the works instead. I'll keep those to myself for now.

Thanks to all who commented and offered advice. There's no way I can answer all of your comments but I read and considered each, and really appreciate the time you took to make them.

On a final note: I should mention that I didn't take the LSAT. I made my decision about three weeks ago, before it was time to register for the test.

Posted by Chester on August 31, 2006 9:04 PM to The Adventures of Chester