Unlike my arrival at Ludlow Hall last year when I knew
nobody, upon my return in September, I was welcomed back by familiar faces. The
overwhelming experience of meeting all new people in 1L meant transfer students
were invisible to me. Everyone was new.
Not this
year. For better or for worse, at a small law school like the University of New
Brunswick, transfer students do not have the luxury of flying below the radar.
They are noticed. But I question whether they are sufficiently acknowledged by
current students.
The thought
of a transfer student reminds me of Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan. In the
cult movie, Lohan’s character transfers from Africa to the U.S.A. where she
loses her identity while getting caught up wanting to integrate among a crowd
of popular high-school girls led by the hateful self-absorbed Regina George.
Read more in my most recent Ab Initio column in Canadian Lawyer Magazine
