I was willing to do it. I was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall, and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School