Student Blogs

Posted by Melanie Shapiro
02/02/2012 at 05:10 PM
It has been a long time since I last posted. I’m in my third year and it’s busy, busy, busy! In the fall, I returned to the Immigration Clinic and took 7 classes, while also doing my writing requirement paper. (Word of advice to first and second year students: get your writing requirement over with ASAP).    This is my last semester of law school and it feels surreal! These three years have been so short and so long at the same time. Every day has been jampacked, but when you’re busy, time flies!    So now about what I want to do with the rest of my life... The Immigration...
Posted by Ben Carroll
01/08/2012 at 04:04 PM
                                                                                             "HEAR NO EVIL...SEE NO EVIL...SPEAK NO EVIL" So,...
Posted by William Wray
11/09/2011 at 05:36 PM
It is customary, after an absence of a month or more from one’s blog, to profusely apologize because “I have been so busy that I haven’t had a chance to update.” Lies. Nobody is so busy that they literally do not have the time to type 800 coherent words. Given the average words per minute of twenty-something typists, 800 words = 15 minutes. What dilatory bloggers are really saying – or at least what I  am saying - is that for over a month I have found it uncomfortable to sit behind a keyboard and produce thoughtful content. Prepare yourself for yet another tortured allegory. I have been...
Posted by Brendan Schlander
11/04/2011 at 12:59 PM
...and I am not talking about the October nor'easter. November for a 1L is a complete whirlwind, and I think that, along with my classmates, I will have a lot to be thankful for about 3 weeks after Thanksgiving. First of all, if anyone is interested in doing a psychological study, they could find an incredibly fascinating focus group if they polled 1L's the weekend before our first memo submission was due. The neurosis was palpable and entertaining. On top of that, all of our doctrinal professors are dropping not so subtle hints about finals and how fast they are approaching. Each of the 1L...
Posted by Cristal Pinnix
10/17/2011 at 12:14 PM
  “Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind,Had to get away to see what we could find.Hope the days that lie aheadbring us back to where they've ledlisten not to what's been said to you . . ." – Crosby, Stills and Nash So here I am again, currently sweeping the cobwebs from my own mind.  It’s hard to believe that an entire month has passed since my last post. Some folks have even asked if I have run out of things to write about, the truth is I have been very busy living life and studying law. Let’s see what have I been up to lately? Well a couple of weeks ago I went on a boat trip...
Posted by Ben Carroll
09/25/2011 at 02:22 PM
    Well, its week 7 and I can finally say that I beginning to settle down into a nice 'ol routine. I remember originally stating I would do a blog every sunday...that worked out well. Anyway, to the news at hand.     I've settled into my classes quite well, if I may say so myself. What seems to be giving me the most trouble?     Legal Methods.     Got to love learning a new language...well...this is it. I find myself wearing myself down on the assigments for it and they aren't even graded! (by the professor at least) They are,...
Posted by Cristal Pinnix
09/14/2011 at 04:55 PM
Week five of law school is upon us. It's still hard to believe that just a short time ago I was just this regular person out in the real world doing my own thing. Days and nights are still filled with classes and loads of reading. My hands at most times seem to be covered in ink from ball-point pens and highlighters. My book bag doesn't seem quite as heavy, not from lack of books, but from getting used to the weight of them all. I came up with this theory a few days ago that the way to tell whether a person is an undergraduate or law student at RWU is to just count the number of bags they are...
Posted by Ben Carroll
09/11/2011 at 05:00 PM
Unless, you live in a cave (like myself) New England was recently hit by two natural disasters. First, an earthquake; then, a hurricane…is the world coming to an end? Could this be the beginning of the end of the world that the Mayan calendar predicts in December 2012? Probably not…             I can say, however, if the world does end I have some first-hand experience of what it will be like after going 4 days without power. Let me just give a quick summary: 1)      Lights. Lights illuminate my world; give me...
Posted by Brendan Schlander
09/04/2011 at 10:06 PM
A hurricane? In New England? Ok fine, a tropical storm by the time she got here. However, Irene was officially removed from the list of possible future daughter's names after the sheer nuisance the last week has been. While I am normally not one to complain about back to back four day weekends, I am absolutely one to complain about 4 days of no electricity, cable or internet. After all, how else am I supposed to communicate with my beloved readers? As bad as the four days without power were, the pure, unadulterated elation of getting back was a feeling that I will not soon forget. Luckily,...
Posted by William Wray
08/31/2011 at 04:14 PM
Note to self - stock up on un-scented candles.   Irene came, Irene left. It was pretty terrible if you were a tree branch, inconvenient if you were any organism which appreciates electricity or plumbing, but otherwise, bearable.    And it wasn't all bad, either: Crises have a way of renewing our appreciation for home and all its fixtures - human and otherwise. “Hunkering” is the verb that captures the feeling for me. The dictionary definition staidly limits itself to 'taking shelter,' but for most, the word implies preparatory trips to the grocery store, foreknowledge of what...