Hillbilly Elegy

school an almost medieval feel. You’d
even sometimes hear that we went to
HLS (Hogwarts Law School). It’s telling
that the best way to describe the law
school was a reference to a series of
fantasy novels.
Classes were hard, and sometimes
required long nights in the library, but
they weren’t that hard. A part of me had
thought I’d finally be revealed as an
intellectual fraud, that the administration
would realize they’d made a terrible
mistake and send me back to
Middletown with their sincerest
apologies. Another part of me thought
I’d be able to hack it but only with
extraordinary dedication; after all, these