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As a 3L, if law school has taught me 1 thing outside of the curriculum, it is that a lot of people have no concept of how the average American lives financially. I have had classmates describe salaries that are almost double anything I’ve ever made as though it is the most abject poverty imaginable. Even the fact that a lot of schools prohibit 1Ls from working at all ignores the reality that we aren’t all on the same financial footing. I knew going into this that the legal profession has a lot of financial barriers to entry, but I guess I didn’t really understand what that looked like until I spent a couple of years as a law student. Does anyone else feel this way?