Reply #64: Trite, because every applicant to law school

[OldLeftieLawyer]

writes stuff like that.

Having read far more of those applications than should ever be legal in the United States, I've seen variations on that line over and over and over. It's a compelling matter, true, but the kids I voted for were the ones who wrote about more creative things, like eggshell skulls and liability, pianos that could fly, grandmothers with meth labs in the basement, and what to award the kid who was turned into a doorstop by a defective toy.

Some of those applicants turned into pretty wonderful lawyers, by the way. I've even hired some of them