Balancing Test

With the recent economic crisis it's hard not to think about what the job market is going to be three years from now, even though I'm only three weeks into school. Of course, it's actually more complex than that for me since many firms hire their 2L associates at the beginning of the 2L year (i.e. a year from now for me) and those summer jobs are what often turn into post-grad employment. So, the economic situation next fall will probably make a big impact on my job prospects.

The other issue is balancing my own interests with the more pragmatic elements of the law. I'm not raring to go into corporate law but I am interested in antitrust, which means that I'll probably have to take at least three business law classes (argh). But also I want to study mass media and copyright, and do some clinical work and maybe a research project....and how do you jam all that into two years of elective course work? Not very easily.

So once again I've put the cart before the horse and neglected thinking about my actual courses.