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Growing up in the Midwest, each autumn I looked forward to spending a Saturday afternoon going with my family to a nearby pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin, run a corn maze, and enjoy hot apple cider. Though the tradition ended several years ago, last fall I found myself in a new type of corn maze: I was a 1L. In corn mazes, everyone starts in the same place and basically knows where they'll end up, but no participant can see far enough ahead to differentiate the correct way out from the paths that are dead ends. Even though every person is equally uncertain about where to go, though, there's still an impulse to look over your shoulder to see who's following you or continue behind the person ahead that confidently chooses one path over another. At the beginning of law school, my classmates and I were all clueless as to how to run the maze of law school, but the temptation was still great to look around and see what others were doing in an attempt to find the right way. No decision was