Art Projects for Law Students: Rejections → Grocery Shopping Lists
I finally completed a small art project that I've been planning for a little over a year.
During the late fall of their first year in law school, most students at my law school tend to send out about 100 letters to New York law firms, seeking summer employment.
Out of the 100 letters, they'll receive somewhere between 90-100 rejections. It's not that they're all summarily unqualified, it's that law firms are loathe to spend lavish summer associate sums on first-year law students — these students know very little law and are unlikely to return to this first summer firm for employment after school.
I saved my half-ream of rejections and converted them into something useful. These rejections have become fodder for my grocery lists.
Categories:
art and design,
law school
1 comment:
In the classic investment book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, is a story of a speculator at the turn of the last century. He visited the presidents of two railroad companies, that eras dot.com mania. At one the executive wrote descriptions and diagrams on expensive letter head; at the other the paper of choice was the back of prior correspondence.
The first went broke, the second flourished. Are you starting a company?
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