and it was ok. We had a lot of reading and I did not anything with my outlines. One of professors gave us this lecture on the subject how to outline. And what you think? everybody is happy that now they know how to outline? WRONG answer! Now everybody is freaked out (including me) that they have to do outline and they do not want, they do not have time and all other things. But my point of this post is not this. BTW, it is almost 10 pm now and I am really sleepy, so I am not going to bore myself with long discussion.
So ABA sent out me this electronic letter with an article about shortage jobs in the legal field and accessive number of law school graduates at the same time. Result? Disaster for many graduates who has left a law school with thousands dollars of debts and with jobs of $50 grand per year. Sucks, does it not? Now what do you think I think about it? This news is definetly not the happiest one. It looks like the situation in my country repeats. Scarry. Sorry. this is it for today, because I am sleepy and I do not want to write who knows what.
G
Friday, September 28, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Law School began and already ate a half of my nerves...
...sleep, free time, calm heart and mind, and many other things. I know I have intended to write almost everyday, but shock of studying, reading, writing, and who knows what else doing, killed all my good intentions. Finally, after a month of that stressful work in law school, I have recalled my plans to write about my days in the school. So here I am, coming back from the darkness of studying law.
During orientation week I hated 2 and 3 year students, who insisted on the fact how hard school will be for us, first year, and how scared we will be. Well, I did not believe them and I made a mistake. My first month was a hell. It is better now, but those first days of not understanding what is going on around me, put me in high distress and disbelief in own strenghth. Moreover, that spirit of competition that I feel each moment, kills me even more. Maybe I just imagine things, but this is how I feel. Huge amount of reading of the cases that contradict each other. My mind had hard time, and still has, switching from civil law system to case law. I mean, what the heck to dig into all those case law, if you can make rules, that still can be quite flexible and live by those rules. Well, of course, there are down sides (is it correct spelling?) of civil law in lack of flexibility. But I find case law superb wrong regarding too high role of the attorneys. Without attorney, even with a winning case, you will not do much, just because of lack of skills in research, knowing the procedure, what fact to stress and what case to use. It is good for attroneys, but not as good for people. On another hand, though, it is good for people, because with a losing case they still may win having a good attorney. Loose or win for a client, it is still will be always win for an attorney, just because he will be able to get his/her buck anyway. This a thought I have now. Possibly in another month it will change to something esle. The good thing is I begin getting used to case law and it makes to me some sense. But still I can be angry reading two cases on the same issue, that still contradict each other.
So my days are pretty busy. Mornings I go to swimming pool for 5.30 am or run, then I get ready and go to the school. In the school I am around 7.30 am, as a rule. I check my email, read before class and off to go for a class at 8.30 or 9.00 am (depends what day). An hour bentween classes is really helpful, just because I can sit down and read through what I have read at home. And, as I understood recently, it is a good thing to do, because after 10 pages for one class and then 10 for another, I loose the track of events, sense and everything else. So I try to go back to assigments and skim them.
What I really love about school is Internet everywhere. I assume you can get it even in a restroom hehehe.... for me, adict to Internet, it is great. The only thing is that I do not have much time to go to web sites and do something, even writing emails.
I am in real trouble with legal writing class. I love it, but I know I write total rubbish. Bless God tutors are really helpful. I think the theme of tutors I will continue in my next note.
Cheers,
G
During orientation week I hated 2 and 3 year students, who insisted on the fact how hard school will be for us, first year, and how scared we will be. Well, I did not believe them and I made a mistake. My first month was a hell. It is better now, but those first days of not understanding what is going on around me, put me in high distress and disbelief in own strenghth. Moreover, that spirit of competition that I feel each moment, kills me even more. Maybe I just imagine things, but this is how I feel. Huge amount of reading of the cases that contradict each other. My mind had hard time, and still has, switching from civil law system to case law. I mean, what the heck to dig into all those case law, if you can make rules, that still can be quite flexible and live by those rules. Well, of course, there are down sides (is it correct spelling?) of civil law in lack of flexibility. But I find case law superb wrong regarding too high role of the attorneys. Without attorney, even with a winning case, you will not do much, just because of lack of skills in research, knowing the procedure, what fact to stress and what case to use. It is good for attroneys, but not as good for people. On another hand, though, it is good for people, because with a losing case they still may win having a good attorney. Loose or win for a client, it is still will be always win for an attorney, just because he will be able to get his/her buck anyway. This a thought I have now. Possibly in another month it will change to something esle. The good thing is I begin getting used to case law and it makes to me some sense. But still I can be angry reading two cases on the same issue, that still contradict each other.
So my days are pretty busy. Mornings I go to swimming pool for 5.30 am or run, then I get ready and go to the school. In the school I am around 7.30 am, as a rule. I check my email, read before class and off to go for a class at 8.30 or 9.00 am (depends what day). An hour bentween classes is really helpful, just because I can sit down and read through what I have read at home. And, as I understood recently, it is a good thing to do, because after 10 pages for one class and then 10 for another, I loose the track of events, sense and everything else. So I try to go back to assigments and skim them.
What I really love about school is Internet everywhere. I assume you can get it even in a restroom hehehe.... for me, adict to Internet, it is great. The only thing is that I do not have much time to go to web sites and do something, even writing emails.
I am in real trouble with legal writing class. I love it, but I know I write total rubbish. Bless God tutors are really helpful. I think the theme of tutors I will continue in my next note.
Cheers,
G
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