Current icebreakers not enough for true friendship
The President of the Fraudsters’ Law Society (FLS; pronounced fuːlz) offered words of criticism this past week in relation to 1L professors’ seemingly common approach to icebreakers. “I can’t help but feel that the current approach to icebreakers is a huge waste of time. While asking each person what they studied in undergrad and a fun fact about them can be ‘interesting,’ I find it barely conducive to forging strong bonds with classmates with whom we’ll spend the next three years.”
When asked what would be preferable, the President, who wished to remain anonymous despite their high-profile title, offered these comments: “Since some of us will spend our entire careers working together, I think it’s important for the icebreakers to be as thorough as humanly possible. I just personally feel [that] I can’t really get to know my classmates unless I know the streets they grew up on, their mothers’ maiden names, their childhood pets and their childhood best friends’ names, where they went to elementary school, the last four digits of their social insurance numbers, who they bank with, the three digits on the back of each of their credit cards, blood types, pre-existing health conditions, places of birth, dates of birth…just the basic stuff, you know? It’s so we can really get comfortable with each other.”
Only time will tell if professors will adopt such a painstaking, time-consuming, and intrusive approach.
On an entirely unrelated note, members of the FLS have recently complained about fraudulent activity on their bank accounts leaving them unable to pay tuition.
