1.
When people ask you why you are pursuing law as if there's more than one answer.
2.
When the 2238423942nd person says they want to be like Harvey Specter or Alan Shore.
3.
When other law students use your CLAT rank to guess which NLU you are from...
4.
And then continue to question your standards when you tell them you're from a Tier Two NLU.
5.
When you partake in a parliamentary debate to pretend that you're the next Shashi Tharoor.
6.
When your college life is incomplete without attending at least ONE law school fest.
7.
When you have to manually change fonts in footnotes to small caps because, Bluebook.
8.
When you feel M.P. Jain is out of your league and move to J.N. Pandey.
9.
When you finally get down to your project the night before the submission.
10.
When you feel like a real boss for completing the CrPC overnight.
11.
When you bag a free trip abroad under the garb of education...
12.
And when, one day, funding stops and the conspiracy theories begin.
13.
When you know winning just ANY moot isn't good enough...
14.
When Symbi Pune predictably wins Best Memorials anyway.
15.
When you desperately need a CV credential and a paid publication saves your ass.
16.
When SOME stud plagiarises and paraphrases an entire paper, and still gets published in SCC.
17.
When the umpteenth law firm rejects your internship application, but you've become immune to it.
18.
When you have to pretend to be happy for a friend when he scores an amazing internship...
19.
When you're the main object of envy after landing that Amarchand Mangaldas internship.
20.
When you realise that your social life is a huge SUX despite all those laurels.
21.
When you are seen as a failure for taking up judiciary.
22.
When you question your life decisions while waiting for placement season...
23.
And when, out of nowhere, you are hit with a PPO.
