Favorite Law School Activities: Equestrian Team
My most useful and enjoyable extracurricular activity in law school had absolutely nothing to do with law school or the law, which was why it was both useful and enjoyable. Let me explain.
When I started law school, I had moved to a new city and state, and I did not know anyone other than my classmates. My high-school and college friends were several states away, as was my family. Because everyone I knew was a law student, law school became all-consuming, and it was easy to miss what was going on in the “real world.”
A few months into my first year, I noticed a flyer inviting people to participate in the university’s equestrian team. I had been riding since I was four years old, so the team seemed like a good fit for me. I joined the team and became the only law student — the only member who was not an undergraduate, actually. The team practiced one night a week, and those practices were important to me for a number of reasons.