Social life, or lack thereof

One of my good friends growing up just graduated from Harvard Law.  I visited her last fall, during her 3L year.  The trip was fun, and after seeing her with her classmates, I began to look forward to making friends in law school.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, I didn’t want to put pressure on the whole friendship-making process.  At orientation, I felt as though people were quick to latch onto “best friends” or form “group” right away.  At least those younger students who appeared to view law school as an extension of undergrad.  Anyway, I kind of avoided the whole thing and hoped that I would find my niche over time.

Well, 1.5 months in, I still haven’t found that niche.  Although I chalk that up to not having time to do anything but read, write, and outline except on weekends – which is time that I feel like I should devote to (1) maintaining some semblance of a relationship with horribly neglected boyfriend, (2) rotating seeing various friends that happen to either live in or are visiting NYC, (3) keeping in touch with friends and family far, far away.  But I’m starting to realize that I might be missing out on a potentially valuable law school social life.

So what exactly is the solution to this problem?  I honestly don’t know.  I mean, one solution would be to stop reading, writing, and outlining so much.  But given the fact that I have yet to do anything “above and beyond” (e.g. crack open a hornbook or take a practice test), I’m not sure what I can actually afford to cut out.  Another solution would be to just forget about hanging out with outside friends and put forth more effort to get to know law school friends.  But that would mean choosing to hang out with people I see approximately 6-10 hours a day even more at the expense of people I see approximately 0-4 hours a week, on a good week.

Oh the balancing act of law school.  Hey, what if I just wait until 2L year to make friends?