In Complete Agreement

Sounds like this guy got burned but doesn't regret it.

Right when I got to Stanford, a 3L told me - "Elliot, it is a small class here - only 500 or so people in the whole school. Don't make a mistake and date a classmate - when it doesn't work out, you'll have to see her every day." Well, I ignored that advice which was repeated to me by many others - and fell completely in love with a girl in my same year almost from the very beginning of law school.

Two years, and one broken engagement later, I am left pondering this advice....

For those of you entering or in law school, some of your classmates will be outrageously anal, dumb, and predictable. But others, no matter where you go to school, could be among the most talented people you meet in your life. Isn't it the height of risk averse stupidity to foresware dating those students merely because you are afraid things won't work out? Shouldn't you at least take a stab, if the opportunity arises, at trying to make something special work? For in the end, what is worse - dealing with a classmate you hooked up with, or not hooking up, not dating that special somebody, and stuck wondering on a late night at the firm "what if..."

(link via JD2B who has finally linked to me - and I didn't even have to say, "pretty pretty please with a cherry on top")

I'm of the opinion that law school presents me with one of my last - if not the last - great opportuniites at finding love and that love trumps all. From that perspective, there's not much I wouldn't risk for love, certainly more than whatever embarrassments or awkwardness that would result from a failed law school romance.