yay, that makes me happy to hear! it took me a while to figure out how to have a consistent youtube workflow, but there will be much more to come! thanks for watching and supporting 🩷

thank you so much! 🩷

omgosh being a summer associate is the BEST!! don't stress too much about all of these tips for the summer--just enjoy yourself and get to know people/partners/the work. then come back to this video when you're a first-year :)

you're so welcome! i targeted the tips to biglaw but really felt that they had wider applicability, as well :) and i would loooove to do a podcast again one day with a network, so who knows--maybe that will be in the future!

Also, it would be so amazing if you could post more about law school and how to get head while in law school! Thank you for everything you do!!

oh gosh--i'm not sure i'm the best source for law school advice (some profs loved me; some didn't care for me; i graduated with good but not latin honors grades) but i will think about doing a video where i just talk about my experience and the things i did which have paid off dividends even now!

substantive emails :)

like @tomatofeind2019 said, "substantive emails" and i'm so sorry they did that!! this type of employee tracking is so off-putting to me and really triggers my teenage rebellion, ugh

Two words- mouse jiggler. Great way to get around that green Slack button bs.

not at all! i really enjoyed my time at HLS, and the grading system (basically no +'s or -'s) let me relax enough so that i took classes and learned for enjoyment rather than GPA (which was a lot of my undergrad experience). i think i was a much better, more engaged student as a result, was able to make some great lifelong connections with students and faculty, and was able to (this is dumb but is a reality) reap the signaling benefits of the yale/harvard resume. i wouldn't recommend that everyone do what i did, though--i had a lot of privileges (no undergrad debt, don't need to support my family) and value experience and decreased performance anxiety quite highly (and probably more than the average person)

​@@CeceXie Makes sense! I have a similar outlook choosing my law school (Berkeley - also no grading system), and what you said really resonates with me. Thanks for the response!

Both options are potentially available, although I think firms may be more willing to sponsor work visas for lawyers

whoo!! 🥇

i assure you--if i knew how to permanently and irrevocably change the nature of the corporate game so that playing the game wasn't necessary, i would! but in lieu of that, i thought that shedding light on the invisible rules of the corporate game was second-best. biglaw is definitely still in me, but that's because strategy and playing the game will always be in me, which i don't view as necessarily a bad thing. do what you have to do in order to do what you want to do, y'know?

@@CeceXie Hi Cece, I am always a bit hesitant in making a comment because somehow I feel it may be perceived negatively. This was not my intention, I actually find your journey fascinating. I guess as a viewer I would expect that perhaps you could go a step further and really let go of the corporate jargon and mindset. When you write "strategy and playing the game will always be in me, which i don't view as necessarily a bad thing. do what you have to do in order to do what you want to do, y'know?" I feel like you are not really outside of the "climbing the ladder" mindset. You don't have to, of course, but would be nice to see you really coming from the other side with a whole new perspective on life, career, and life that is not so "structured". Perhaps you want to but maybe it is just too comfortable to go back to the old ways to setting plans and goals and strategies to climb yet another ladder? Again, please do not take this in the wrong way, I really wish you success and I am looking forward to reading your book soon! :)