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Posted by Brendan
Schlander
11/04/2011 at 01:59 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 Brendan
Schlander
09/04/2011 at 11:06 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 05:14 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...
Posted by Brendan
Schlander
08/21/2011 at 02:36 PM
It is official, I (along with my fellow 1L's) have completed my first week of law school. And the verdict? The jury is still out...please excuse my bad lawyer puns. This week has been a whirlwind of meeting our section-mates and professors, figuring out where to sit and how to balance our schedules. Not-so-quiet whispers have already filled the hallways about which professors eased their students in and which ones put the already nervous 1L's on the spot from the get go. And then, as quickly as it started, it was over. Our first weekend was upon us and we are now accountable for our own time...
Posted by Brendan
Schlander
08/16/2011 at 02:56 PM
I have known for quite a while that after completing my Bachelor’s degree that I wanted to end up in law school. Where I wanted to go and what kind of law that I wanted to practice was a completely different story. At first, my search was based entirely on where I had a chance to get in based on my LSAT score and GPA along with what I knew about the schools from my undergrad search four years prior.
Admittedly, I applied to Roger Williams on a whim. I was more focused on schools in the major east coast metropolises; Boston, New York, D.C., Philadelphia, etc. Bristol was completely under the...
Posted by William
Wray
08/04/2011 at 11:48 AM
It will be quite a transition to return to school after having worked this summer. To begin with, I can actually write again. By this I mean:
1) I can use non-mono-spaced fonts, which in addition to being less coma-inducing than Courier New, allow me to banish any thought of the arcane conventions attending double-spacing in court documents, and
2) I need not feverishly research a legal citation with which to end every sentence, no matter how obvious the proposition therein. (Cf. Legal writing.)
Next – and I have mixed feelings about this – I can re-accustom myself to uninhibited, full-...
Posted by Melanie
Shapiro
07/05/2011 at 10:59 AM
A lot has happened since the last time that I blogged. I finished my second year of law school and had a great spring semester. I was in the Immigration Clinic and it was by far the best experience of my law school career. It’s important to understand black letter law, but what really matters are practical lawyering skills. It’s one thing to sit down and apply law to a fact pattern on an exam, but when someone’s life is on the line, it makes everything learned in law school real. Once a law...
Posted by Brynna
Gang
06/28/2011 at 10:25 PM
Evidently my idea of posting another blog before the end of the school year was---unsuccessful. To atone I will post an extra long one.
I think I have mentioned that when it comes to study places I am a Starbucks fan. And while I really do love Starbucks and their baristas who were so kind to me throughout the year, I have decided to go on hiatus this summer. By the time spring exams were over I was so burned out that even entering a Starbucks makes me feel like I should be doing RAP problems or answering a hypothetical about real covenants. So no Starbucks for now.
Let me...
Posted by Brynna
Gang
06/28/2011 at 10:25 PM
Evidently my idea of posting another blog before the end of the school year was---unsuccessful. To atone I will post an extra long one.
I think I have mentioned that when it comes to study places I am a Starbucks fan. And while I really do love Starbucks and their baristas who were so kind to me throughout the year, I have decided to go on hiatus this summer. By the time spring exams were over I was so burned out that even entering a Starbucks makes me feel like I should be doing RAP problems or answering a hypothetical about real covenants. So no Starbucks for now.
Let me just...