About the Site
Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil records my experiences and thoughts as I go through the three year law school program at Columbia University. In that sense, it's a fairly typical law school blog.
Why the blog?
As much as I like having a readership, this blog's primary purpose is to let me look back over my law school days after they're finished. I think the next three years are likely to be transformational. Five or so years from now, I'd like to laugh at how I thought I'd change.
That said, there's a lot of other reasons for this site beyond what I could get from a handwritten diary. I'd like my friends to be able to keep track of my time in New York. I hope to meet some new people. The RSS syndication feature should let me keep track of other law school bloggers out there. And if this site helps some 'JD2B' to make a decision one way or the other about law school, all the better.
Rules of the Site
- Be polite. I've turned on the comments feature so that guests can leave messages for me or talk among themselves. I'd ask that anyone who comments check their words to make sure they're not going to cause unnecessary offense. To quote Anthony Trollope: "The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives." Troll or flame me, and I'll respond in kind; insult a guest and I'll probably just remove the comment.
- Copyright. All contents of Three Years of Hell are the property of Anthony Rickey, and all available copyrights are reserved. Permission is granted to syndicate the site through the RSS feed at http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/index.rdf. By commenting on this site, guests relinquish any claims to copyright over the content of their messages. I will feel free to edit, modify, or delete the contents of any posting made on Three Years of Hell.
- Privacy. In general, I'll try to hide or obscure the identity of friends and associates mentioned in this site. If you're happy to have yourself identified, please email me at blog@threeyearsofhell.com. Similarly, if you want something removed from the site, feel free to use the same address.
- Email Policy. I'm going to take a page from Will Baude, an advocate of good etiquette, whose policy runs thus:
Unless you explicitly tell me otherwise, email sent about the blog (or topics recently mentioned on the blog) will be considered fair game to be republished here on this (not for profit) blog. This will usually, but not always, be anonymous; If you have strong feelings about this, be sure to express a preference.
I will only add this to Mr. Baude's policy: except where legally or professionally bound, the sharing of correspondence is generally at the option of the recipient. So if you're sending insults that you wouldn't want posted online, think twice.