Possibly the biggest surprise of the summer associate experience for me is just how quickly the summer has passed by. I have had a lot of different summer jobs/experiences in the past but no summer has gone by quite as quickly as this one.
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This past Saturday was my five year wedding anniversary. Despite having just traveled the prior weekend up to my in-laws' place, my wife and I were adamant that we do something special to commemorate the occasion.
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Having had a couple weeks to settle into our new lives for the summer, my wife and I decided that it was time to start seeing the Bay Area sights. We had previously seen most of the common San Francisco attractions, so we decided it was time to head on over to Monterey and check out the aquarium.
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After a rather hectic weekend trip to Southern California to visit relatives, I returned to work on Monday—for 2 hours. At 11:15 a.m., the other Palo Alto summer associates and I grabbed a cab and headed to the airport.
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In the last post I dispensed with the advice that I followed and is worth repeating. Here are the things I would do differently.
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Welcome to my blog. Over the summer I will be sharing my thoughts on my experience as a summer associate in the Palo Alto office of WilmerHale. For my first post, I have decided to talk about the top three reasons why I chose to come to this office.
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