Work/life balance not a big draw at law school reunion weekend
I'm at the annual Yale Law School reunion. Dean Koh is doing a great job exhorting everyone to remember that the law school stands for excellence and humanity — and excellence in (presumably humane) fundraising. He briefly described the credentials of this year's entering class. Many people in the room said quietly to themselves “I would never get in now.”
Every reunion has a theme that brings alumni in for discussion. This year it's the work-life balance. So there are panels entitled I Love My Job, But Working 24/7? and Work and Self.
I've been to other alumni weekends where the Friday dinner is a roaring, successful event, where you can't find a seat or make your way down the aisles because of the throngs of back-slapping alums happy to be back in the seat of Yale-dom.
The dinner tonight was not like that. Sure, it was festive (and my table in particular seemed to be making an awful lot of noise), but there wasn't a huge crowd. It may have been the topic of the weekend that was the issue.
Or maybe everyone's still at the office.