There was a rep on student loan consolidation on campus today. He sat at a table completely surrounded and explaining the new program for at least two hours. I left at that point, but there were always at least 5 students asking questions and 3 or 4 waiting near by. It's not a job I would have liked because we literally had him surrounded while we shouted questions at him. I assume it went on like that for the next 3 hours with no breaks.
Almost the entire student body is anxious about how we're going to deal with our loans. What they ought to do is make the ABA send out reps to field these sessions. If the reps had to hit 30 law schools in 15 days I bet they would start rethinking their requirements for law school accreditation. We might have some option other than wasting a year racking up debt while we wait to take the bar.
We might be better lawyers if we could divert some of our anxiety from student loans to what the phrase "in the interest of justice" actually means to the community.