Exams almost over

Well, what can I say?! I am screwed!!!

I feel like a shit

Sorry for using such words, but I feel like a shit. In a week exams will begin but I feel I know nothing. And I am the one who told that plan to get at least 2 As this semester. I hardly believe I can do it. I really really freak out. I feel like school made me even more stupid than I was.

Maybe I need to find some links on how-not-to-feel-stupid???!! :-))

Death in Wal-Mart

I didn't expect to get this

Family of man trampled to death sues Wal-Mart

so fast, but I was waiting for it. I wonder, how is it so that a family of a 34-years old employee could afford a family attorney? :) or it would be more politically correct to call him "recently acquired family attorney"?

So what do they claim? The wrongful death

The lawsuit alleges that Damour's death was caused by the "wanton disregard for
public safety and gross negligence of the defendants."

. . . Hecht [attorney] also filed a notice of claim against Nassau County to preserve the family's right to file a lawsuit against its police department.

. . . On Tuesday, lawyers said two Nassau County men who claim they were injured at the store also are suing Wal-Mart. Their lawyers also filed a notice of a $2 million claim against the Nassau County Police Department.

I think before Christmas we will see articles "Family of man trampled to death in a Wal-Mart sale settled for undisclosed amount."

Acid attacks

Westerners associate terrorism in Pakistan with suicide bombers, but the real emerging terrorist threat for Pakistani women is being disfigured by acid attacks, often by their own husbands, Nicholas D.

Watch video (the video contains graphic images).

Procrastination

While procrastinating I have found this article:

PROCRASTINATING AGAIN? HOW TO KICK THE HABIT.
ALTHOUGH BIOLOGY IS PARTLY TO BLAME FOR FOOT-DRAGGING, ANYONE CAN LEARN TO QUIT.

Raymond, a high-powered attorney, habitually put off returning important business calls and penning legal briefs, behaviors that seriously threatened his career. Raymond (not his real name) sought help from clinical psychologist William Knaus, who practices in Longmeadow, Mass. As a first step, Knaus gave Raymond a two-page synopsis of procrastination and asked him to read it “and see if the description applied.” Raymond agreed to do so on a flight to Europe. Instead he watched a movie. He next vowed to read it the first night at his hotel, but he fell asleep early. After that, each day brought something more compelling to do. In the end, Knaus calculated that the lawyer had spent 40 hours delaying a task that would have taken about two minutes to complete.

The article is really long but the end I found most useful:

In Raymond’s case, getting to the task was, indeed, the hard part. Knaus helped him to do that by first determining the reason for his instinct to delay: Raymond feared being tested on the synopsis and looking foolish. So Knaus asked him to pick the lesser of two evils, doing his work—and risking imperfection—or avoiding difficult tasks and losing his job. When Knaus put it that way, the lawyer was able to “just grind it out.” Instead of being fired, Raymond became a “superstar” at his firm.

In other words, when I have that great desire to procrastinate a little, what I need is to think about my finals and that if I do not study, I will fail.

It WORKS now!!! I go to study!

Timing is everything

I knew I will get that call from AG's office when I have already committed for summer. Yes, imagine, my summer is booked with internships in two places. All of them for free. I doubt somebody will agree to endure my silly head for more than a month and for pay.

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The end of November

Today I have missed two classes. They were first missed classes for a whole semester. I am awfully ashamed. The reason is not excusable - I have to finish my note of 25 pages before this Friday 5 p.m. What did I do during a semester I do not know. I seemed to me I was a very busy student. But despite this I am behind in this damn note and some reading. Bless God I have a week of the rest or will it be a rest? If I call outlining, studying and reading missed assignment a rest, then, sure, I will have a rest :-))

Flow

Today I have got some good feedback, but for some reason it does not make me feel right. Why? I do not know. perhaps, because now I have raise a bar of expectation too high and I am afraid I will not be able to jump over it again :-( God help me and give more confidence.

Yesterday I was called on in Agency class. I did answer but not the questions given. I do not feel bad, but I wish I could have done better.

Bottom line - I feel weird, like something is going to happen and I will not like it. Maybe it is election thing? Who knows?

Back to the same theme

Just in my last post I have talked about immigration law issues. Then I have checked discussion board for my class and found this link to the New York Time's pictures Friendships at the border. I was "touched" by this

. . . a Democrat who represents the area, has urged the Department of Homeland Sceurity not to build in the park. "It's harmful to the kind of family culture we have at the border," he said. "It is one place, certainly, in San Diego, where we talk about friendship at the border."

"[H]armful to the kind of family culture"?? but what culture? Apparently he meant the culture of the country-neighbor, Mexico. I understand that the US at this time has more Mexican aliens than of any other national origins. But, why for this reason, we should be more pitiful to them than to other aliens. Why do not Americans worry as much about those who came, for example, from Europe? They also have families, some of them also cry when they leave their relatives. I do not like this "discrimination." If you want to take care of aliens from neighboring countries, then do not make others "equal but separate." If Democrat representative worries about "harmful" fenses between families, then he should pay for big cruise ships and allow other aliens at least once a year see their relatives like those on the pictures do through the fense.

P.S. yes, I am too harsh today, but those pictures of crying aliens near fence annoy me.

Immigration law

it is another class I am taking - Immigration law. I think students in that class hate me :-( and I feel uncomfortable about it. You know why they hate me? We talked about rights of aliens in this country, in the US. Everybody said that rules of immigration law are harsh (we were discussing deportation rules). Judges in assignment cases and students in class say that long term living in the US creates strong ties between an immigrant and this country, and, therefore, Congress should not deport without Due Process, without strong grounds and etc.

I said (what a joke, because I am an immigrant), that if a person has an opportunity to get a citizenship then he/she should get a citizenship showing by this the devotion that a person has to the country and the appreciation to this country for what it gives a person: a right to live, to prosper. If you decided to be a legal permanent resident for years and years and you do not want to strip yourself of rights and obligations you have before another country, then it is your problem that you committed a crime and now the government wants to deport you to the place where you, in fact, belong. Yes, I think this way. If you live here, then do not mess around between two countries, decide and live or leave.

Contra arguments were
1) many aliens cannot get a citizenship because they do not have money and time to learn English. - I do not accept this one. It is silly. If you want to speak English you will learn, you will find job with English speaking personal, you will learn it by sitting in toilet during your breaks with flashcards of words. Just try to have a wish. Money? Of course, you will not have money if you do not speak English, then you are on low-paid jobs. Moreover, you may save if you really want it.

2) another contra argument was that the US is the country that accepts even those ho do not want to follow the US Constitution, it is the country where a person can live in a shack and burn an American flag every day.
I find here some point, I admit it. So glorious freedom that Americans like to be proud of. But what came first into my mind were Americans who live in this country, enjoy protection and benefits and say that they hate the US. I do not want this country to be such a rotten place. and I do not think it is right (or I might say correct, obviously not politically correct) to further such behaviour of our citizens, and of course we should not allow aliens to do that. Why? Because a country survives due to loyalty to the country. Look at Ukraine and Russia. There is no loyalty left, everybody pulls benefit for himself without thinking about others. Those countries are almost destroyed. BTW, this freedom is so symbolic. In general, the US is really policing country, not so many things are allowed here. Of course, you may live in shack, do nothing, ask for money, and get free food stamps. I do not think Americans must be proud of this example.

Perhaps, I was brought up in conditions where people were proud of their country and believed they do best for it. Therefore, I want the US, it is my country now, had citizens who like it, who respects it, but not who wants to destroy, to break.

This is my word and I am not stepping back. I might stop talking in class, because I feel I ask for hateredd form others. I do not want to have this image. I am not bad. Really!

Life is full of .... [fill a blank]

So what did I do today? I had a midterm on Income Tax class... yeahhh ... I was behind in studying and therefore I was nervous like never booooo... I did not sleep. Actually, I slept 3-4 hours at night... I studied and after I could not fall asleep. What a life! Consequently today I was exhausted and tired. Exam was easy. The problem is that I have realized that after I wrote an exam and left a classroom. What do I think of the exam? I failed ... [cursing]. I forgot to answer third question - yes forgot, even though I might have known the answer, and I messed up parties (as always) of the transactions (no suprise for me). as a result I applied wrong rules. I am miserable now and I want to cry but I do not have tears. The point of this giberish is not complaining (enough of it I had on these pages), but to discuss the fact of life - I study for exam and do not sleep at night, because I want to have a good result, and then I come to exam and almost fall asleep there, at least my mind did this. As a result I will have result not better than if I slept at night instead of snoozing above a textbook. Conclusion? study smart! do this step by step. I avoided that and here is the result :-(((

My pain

I am working on my memo for judge now. What a pain. Imagine, what a horor to know that you are really bad writer, and then, after you wrote some shit, that lacks grammar and sense will be read by a person who was for a decade on the bench. I freak out. In addition my unskillful writing, I am behind my due date and this freaks me out even more.

An interesting fact is that I've done my research, I know what I want to say, but when I try to put this on paper, nonsense comes out or just non-writing mood. I guess I do not have to tell you much if you have read my blog (or at least a couple of posts).

How is my law school life? Every day I tell myself - "My life SUCKS" and there are no other thoughts excepts during nights when I am troubled by lack of sleep. Indeed, you should believe a person who says 2L is easier. It is, just because you know what you are doing. You understand that you have no idea what Justice wanted to say in a case, not because you are stupid, but because the writer of an opinion was (or is) stupid and vague and ambiguous. It might appear to you that he wrote his opinion in one night being drunk after dozens of glasses of whisky. BUT... 2L is much busier and this sucks. I have 4 classes, I have a journal, a judicial internship. All this is hanging above my head and I see it as nothing more but an old stinky rope rubbed with even stinkier soap. You know what I want to do? Hang myself. Then I forgot about my misery of 2L life and misery of fear finals.
rrrrr....

Now I know why I like Dobermans so much...

... I like taxes and doberman is the IRS dog :-)))

The IRS Dog: Doberman Pinscher
Fun tax fact of the day: The first Doberman Pinscher was bred in 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann -- "a tax collector who frequently traveled through many bandit-infested areas, and needed a protection dog to guard him in any situation that might arise. He set out to breed a new type of dog that, in his opinion, would be the perfect combination of strength, loyalty, intelligence, and ferocity." Ben Cunningham.

Source: TaxProf Blog
More about Doberman Pinschers here

Don't you love it???

"A test that everyone passes is not a test at all."
Commissioner v. Groetzinger, 480 U.S. 23 (1987)(Justice Blackman)

I also would add that it should be easy to understand and of course feasible to apply. How often do you see those???

6 weeks behind

What can I say? I enjoy 2L much more than I enjoyed 1L. I have classes I want and I like. I chose good professors. But reading is much higher in volume. Now I looked into my immigration law and see that I have to read 30 pages. What a bummer! I was going to write my memo for my externship.

Last week and this week I am really stressed out because till this time I was on time in everything, I was fine with my reading, a little bit behind with outlining. But now this is a crisis. I did not do anything for my note for a journal. Today I did not read for my Income tax. I still work on that memo. I am frustraited that my efficiency is so low. I am really frustraited. For the worst part this frustration takes away my sleep, and, consequently, I am sleepy all day; I am a dangerous driver, because I move from one side of the line to another, and I am just mad at every person around me.

After two weeks of the third semester

This semester plunged into my life quite rapidly. I have found a judicial externship. I was happy than ever till last Friday, during which I had a Journal meeting and heard about all horrors of how much work I will have to do for the journal. I am scared and worried that I will not make it: 4 classes (some of them with tough professors), externship (2 days a week) and 25 minimum pages for the journal. If I knew that there is so much work for the journal, I might have not looked for the externship. Well, I began all this and there is no way back - what a pity.

I am back

I have disappeared from this blog for the whole summer. wow... that was a long time. The thing is that it was not laziness or just a bad memory, because I kept writing another blog I have but which is not dedicated to the law school as much as this one. But I sensed that this phenomena was not nothing more than a longing to forget a law school for whole summer. When I opened this blog, my purpose was to reflect my life as an immigrant but not as a law student. After I began my 1L it turned out to be stories about my studying and not much else. May I say that I disgraced my blog by diverging from its original purpose? Partialll yes. But I will not continue on this theme, as I am back, and I have a feeling that this blog will continue to be the blog of a law student - 2L at this point.

About my summer. It was SUPER great!!! I visited my parents for a month, met my friends, relatives. I went to Mediterranean for 10 days. Then I spent a couple of days on Hawaii (I love you Hawaii, it is the paradise), and just recently I came back from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Actually I took one summer class - Evidence. It was not so bad. Professor was very funny, and it gave some color to a boredom of the class.

I must confess my GPA got worse than it was after 1st semester. I do not cry, I am tough now to the bad grades. But I want (dream, plan, long to) get better. For some reason 1L passed by like a horrible dream with my laziness and denial to do a homework. I noticed same thing in my previous studyings, but this year was the absolute pick. What was wrong? Do not ask me. I can only guess, and one of my guesses is that I just got scared of being a loser, I got scared of horror stories about 1L and its competitiveness. I was an IDIOT to follow all that crap. I had just study and think about my knowledge and nothing more else, and to kill all the doubts in my own capabilities. Anyway, I do not want to write more about my damn bad experiences in 1L, at least in this post. I would better get clip and paste some advice about how to succeed in law school which I, unfortunately, did not follow at all, and I think that was another reason why I did not succeed - I did nothing during my weekends but watching stupid TV shows and surfing Web. If you are 1L - read and do not do what I did.

One of my favorite clients from this year who is packing up to attend George Mason School of Law sent me this e-mail yesterday:
"about what kind of time commitment *is* law school, in practice, to succeed (by my definition, "succeed" meaning be in the top 15 or 10% of the class)?"

My answer was: Take off Friday afternoons and evenings to see a movie and relax. At all other times when not in class, eating, or sleeping, then study. I also gave him the secret to my own success in law school (top 8% of my class, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, blah, blah, blah) - spend every weekend reviewing and outlining your class notes from the week before. That way, your outlines are done and you can just study them while everyone else is scrambling to outline tons of material. This means, of course, keeping up with your class reading during the week.And it does get easier as a 2L and 3L - the work is harder but you know what you're doing by then and get a system down.

Taken from How to Succeed in Law School

Holiday break

For a week I do not do anything. Suprisingly I have just got my grade for ConLaw. Ummm... I thought I will get a better one at least by 3 points. Well, I did get one. It is good I feel much easier about bad grades than I have felt a semester ago. A semester ago I was crying, I was in hysterics. Today I do not care. I am not going to kill myself because of grades. Maybe I will think differently when I am looking for job, as all employers want good grades. Whatever. So if you read this blog, and you are a student with bad grades, and you think you will not be able to get over your grades and worry all your life about it, talk to me. I will tell you how to get used to BAD grades. :-)))

Taking exams in a law school.

Another good article for exam taking in a law school.

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The Seven C’s of Exam Success
Are you finding yourself confused about the professor’s expectations regarding exams? Tired of IRAC, or IREAC, or CREAC – or any other set of similar type
initials? Perhaps the seven C’s can give you a better sense of how you should
approach exams.

1. Call of the question. The call is really two things – knowing who you are supposed to represent (Court? Lawyer? Policymaker?); and having a sense of what the professor wants (A ruling? A remedy? An argument?) Knowing these points really helps you.

2. Cast of characters.is more than simply dividing up your issues. You also need to think about the purpose of their presence. So you need a plan of action as to how to view your people in the exam question. Ask yourself:

Are they players?
Are they background (in the sense that their presence is in support of someone else)?
Are there a number of pairs arguing against each other?
Knowing the answers to these questions can help you group the issues better and see where the professor finds issues. In a complex, multi-issue problem with a large cast of characters, it is important to know each player’s function – and how they line up against each other.

3. Context. Here is the stuff everyone forgets. Before you get to the specifics, it’s a good idea to give the reader a sense of where you are going. So, if talking about applying an exception – tell the reader the general rule of law. If applying a rule, explain it so that the reader knows the “rules of the game.” Moreover, you ultimately need to get started and giving context to your answer helps organize your answer. Remember, the professor is not going to assume you understand the purpose of summary judgment or the definition of murder in the first degree unless you tell her. If the type of contract it is will color what you do – explain that it is/is not covered by the UCC. If you are deciding to take away the rights of the jury by a directed verdict – or move one case to another place because of a change of venue – give the rationale of what each is supposed to accomplish. The bottom line is that you should not assume anything with respect to what the reader (aka the professor) knows – you must be specific and tell him or her.

4. Conflict. Once you give the context information that you need, you will then need to focus on what the specific problem is. Now your goal is to examine and explain the sides of the conflict. In doing so, it is important to always keep in mind what the diverging parties would argue, even if the call of the question will result in a court decision. Unless you know what each side wants or could want, how can you figure out which position is better? “Bottom line” analysis is not sufficient! Remember the professor is going to grade the process, so show the problems, the conflicts and the maybes! Generally, these conflicts involve four general types of problems:

The pick one (or more) from a series of similar type rules (Could the defendant be charged with murder one? Two? Manslaughter? All? Some?)
Decide whether rule applies (Can the court use parole evidence in this contract situation?)
Assess if what was done was right with respect to the rule, or, the converse of the above. (Was summary judgment properly granted?)
Argue your best position (If you are the defendant’s attorney, how can you get in parole evidence?)
But, no matter what type of question, you will always need to know how to present a thorough discussion of the conflicts that are involved in the question. One way of checking yourself is to use phrases such as:

So, this is the first possible rule because…
It is important to consider this rule because…
It is important to remember that this rule is different from this (other) rule because…
5. Consequences.So if you have applied this rule - so what? What do we get for our troubles? Need to explain the effect of applying the selected rule under these examination facts. So beyond just telling the professor the rules and what they mean, you also need to tell her what happens because of the set of facts in the specific problem. The goal in good exam writing is not to make the professor guess what would happen in the facts that she crafted. So use phrases like, “Here, under these facts of …, the court would determine that this rule would apply because…” to get you started in applying rules to facts (and yes, this is the A in IREAC!)

6. Charms of the professors.Professors are not cookie cutters, which is why study aids are not perfect. So, if available, you should always look at past exams of that professor. And that’s why you need to spend time actually practicing those problems or hypotheticals. You want to do this because you want to be very familiar with anticipating what a professor wants in his answer. So, if they like references to cases, do it. If they like references to the Restatement or the UCC or other code, give it to them. If they like policy, theories, philosophy, alternative dispute resolutions, why not give them what they want? To quote Nike – just do it!

7. Conclusions.Finally, as with all things, you must come to the end of the answer. So, tell the professor your version of “happily ever after,” even if the result is not actually happy. So, what will happen? Who should win? What were the concerns that you took care of? By actually reviewing the question asked, you can guarantee that you gave that professor her answer. So don’t assume the professor can figure out what will happen because of your analysis – tell him!

Plans for my second year

I hope I will read a coupld of times this article
HOW TO CHANGE SECOND SEMESTER: REVIEWING EXAMS AND OTHER HINTS FOR SUCCESS It is late for my second semester as it's almost gone, but I hope I will utilize those advices my third semester.

Soon it will be over

Three days to go, two for preparation and another for exam and then I have my break for two month till summer school. yeyeyeyey

Two done, two to go

I freak out... I am stressed and ready to loose my consciousness. I have submitted paper today for another exam and I think that paper is the worst paper I even had written in my life. I tried to sound funny but at the end it came up really serious. briefly, it was a parody on the paper. Now I have to study for the next final, and I forgot my textbooks in the locker. Did I leave my brain in a locker too??? Anyway, I will be realllyyy happy when I finish this damn fist year!!!

First final??? Gone

I kicked away my first final. Yesterday I have felt good but not today. I feel I could do better and the feeling is not very encouraging for the next exams, therefore, I will keep my mouth shut. BTW, I think I have to take some typing lessons, because on one of the questions I did not have enough time to type everything I wanted. What a pity!

How to be a better learner?

If you strugle with your studying and have no confidence in your learning abilities, read those tips, maybe they will give you some assistance.

How to Become Smarter

Frankly, I did not read, but maybe with time I will look at it. Hopefully.

Top web site about motivation but it does not guarantee that I have it

So my blog continues to hit the ranks on the google search on "how to find motivation." Believe me or not, but a long absence of the posts on this site may tell my reader a lot about my motivation not only to write, but also to study. I quitted writing here, because I was tired of thinking every day about a school - nights and days, the same thoughts. Moreover, I did not (and do not) want to disappointed new arrivals into the law field who got there admission letters and now excited to begin to crack their way through the stone of legal knowledge. At this point I have no idea to where this path leads me. I am afraid my teech got a lot of damage and the school does not seem to me so exciting as it was before I have begun it. Now if you are a prospective 1L student, do not read further because I am going to entrust my view on the school. I hate it! I love law, I love it, but I do not like the way how I am taught and the way how I have to learn. I saw other ways to teach, and I think the ones now just do not work for me. Maybe it is just me, an old grumpy woman who got used to different things, and who does not want to work hard to reach something more than she has. Again, this is my personal view and I hope it caused only by exhaustion from studying. I will not be suprised if in a week after finals, I will sing another song.

I am on the spring break and I do not care about anything

I have finished my appealate brief. Three nights without sleep (well at least 3-5 hours and for me it is not enough). The last night before a due date we spent about 10 hours proof reading, editing, formating. Finally my partner and I with tired voice said, "that's it. DONE!" and with happiness hit Print button. Yes, it was done, but not exactly. Because we finished at 11 pm, all Kinkos around were closed. Actually one was opened, but I did not know about it. So next morning I was running out the house in rush, because I woke up too late and I had an hour to get to Kinko, wait them printing and binding, then drive to the school. Bless God I made it. That Friday, I came home and went to sleep for four hours. Then we went to a bar, and then I had a sleep for another 10 hours. Yes... and now I have a spring break.

Honestly, I do nothing. I am on Internet, I am reading blogs, I am writing blogs (not here), I watch TV. I have some excuse, today I have finished online quizes to pass Lexis certification. At least I am over with this. Now I have to work on cover letter for internship and I have no wish. Maybe I should relax this summer? Take a summer class and go see my parents? I consider this plan. Forget about stress of a law school and go to relax and spend fun time with my friends. I wish I could do this right now :-)))

Guess what I am doing this Monday evening?

I am writing appealate brief yeyeyeyeyey... My trial brief did not go so bad, at least professor said I have a good research and I need to paraphrase a lot of stuff. This is funny how I missed a lot of things and arguments. Interestingly, I had touched on them in trial brief, but worded as I was defendant (but actually I am plaintiff). I had a lot citation problems. I hope I will resolve this in appealate brief.

Ok, I am off to go.

I always told that people are ugly creatures - see the article

I am outraged. Yes, I am a dog lover and I hate this freak who did this:

A Costa Rican artist found himself in hot water with the animal protection people in his home country after using a starving, sick street dog as part of an exposition in Managua, Nicaragua, in August. Guillermo “Habacuc” Vargas allegedly found the dog tied up on a street corner in a poor Nicaragua barrio and brought it to the showing.

He tied the dog, according to furious animal lovers, in a corner of the salon where it died after a day. Habacuc’s exhibition included a legend spelled out in dog food reading “You are what you read,” photos and an incense burner that burned an ounce of marijauna and 175 “rock’ of crack cocaine. In the background, according to reports, the Sandista national anthem played backwards.

According to the artist, his “art” was a tribute to Natividad Canda, a Nicaraguan burglar killed in Costa Rica by two rottweilers guarding property he had entered at night. The incident caused friction between the two countries. Habacuc told the daily La Nacion, “I won’t say the dog died. The importance to me is the hypocracy of the people where an animal is the focus of attention where people come to see art but not when it’s in the street starving to death.”

“The same thing happened with poor Natividad Canda. The people sympathized with him only after he was dead,” the artist added.

The artist apparently is unaware that at least three large, active organizations are dedicated in Costa Rica to the protection of animals and that several persons have been prosecuted for cruelty to animals. They are hampered in their efforts by the old Hispanic customs of disregard for animal welfare and by a lack of funding.

Text found on Costa Rica blogs

And he did this because some idiot, actually even worse because he was a burglar, got illegally at night to somebody's property!!!??? "the hypocracy of the people where an animal is the focus of attention" ????? People are cause of many evils that happen to them! I have not pite to criminals who are punished for their bad deeds. But what this little dog did to you, freak?

But even worse, people watched this and did nothing?

Another thought for today

Actually, I should not be so mad, because just this morning I was thinking that I am not qualified for the job with a large firm. I was not sure whether I will feel ok if I have a big money from them and do a lot of things badly. Whatever! On one of my profiles I said that everything what happens with me is for the best. Just yesterday I talked with one guy online (Yahoo messenger) about this phrase, and funny thing I tired to persuade him that this statement reflects the reality. Now, by writing previous post I rejected my idea (almost rejected). So now I have to think positively and think about benefits I will get from not having an internship.

1. I can take classes and it will be easier then during the year.

2. I can visit my parents, and go to Turkey

3. Perhaps I will find internship with judge or another firm, and even though I will not get as much money, but I will get a good experience.

4. I just will have fun time.

Damn it, I cannot believe that I have found so many good reasons not to be upset.

:-))))

Bad news I have got and now upset

So those f***** interviews did not work out for me. They just did not like me. I am upset, and maybe mostly not because they did not chose me, but because I have spent tremendous amount of time with a huge hopes I will get it. As a result I did not. Now I have to begin my process again and look for something different. I want to apply for judicial internship. I think I am interested in them more. Moreover, it is for free, and I hope judges will like it more.

I am sorry for bad words BUT I am f***** mad.

Referals

Ok, my blog continues to be among the first in the ranking of motivation for a law school and exams, hatred and tiredness to law school and studying too. LOL

An interview with a law student

I liked it.

Politics

I am not much into politics, but those recent events are just hillarious. Governor and prostitutes! Isn't it sweet? Just today I have watched NBC... by the way shame on them to bring those girls (prostitutes or, as they call themselves, escort) for the interview. What was the point of that? To show that empty minded women who hardly can do some logic in their phrases but who earn more than any other intelligent woman? I am not saying that all prostitutes are empty minded. I am not biased about it. Maybe a little. When I began watching that episode I really expected some intelligent women. I thought that if they are paid so much money, they might be more sofisticated than those on the streets. As a result, I was disappointed. Although one of them, the one from Montreal, Canada, pointed out that she is writing a book (yeahh...she meant Kamasutra?), on the question what she think if the NY governor should resign, she answered that of course, "what an example he shows kinds?" I laughed so hard. Girly, and what example you show? Sleeping with hundrends of men for money. Come on! "I feel much better if my client is single." Yeah, right, but you still sleep with him for money. My point is not to scorn profession of the prostitute. No. I am ok with what they do, as long as they use condoms, do not spread STDs and have enjoyment from this. But how can she judge a person while having so low moral standards by herself?

Now Spitzer's wife. I have listen this afternoon a good idea about her. If she insists her husband not to resign, then she probably knew about his adventers. I will not be suprised if she knew. However, what else she has to say in such situtation as her husband's? Moreover, everybody is talking about braveness of those wives, who come to support their husbands in such "difficult" times. Come on, they do not have another choice. They has been living with those horny bastards for many years, having financial support from them and status. If they divorce them at one, it will be worse for them, just because other wives in such situtations did not do that and, then, people will tell that a wife is bad, because she did not support her husband. I guess it is much better for wives to stay with their husbands, at least for a while, because they will look much better if they do. People will tell that they are so goood and sooo generous to support their men, and by staying with them, instead of divorcing, they make men bad but not themselves. My point is that those women are not brave, they are just smart not to jump into hot water, but, instead, just blow on it. By the way, his wife looks really hot!

Another political issue I have a view on is the comment of one of campaign team (or what is the technical name?) of Hillary. I tried to find the name of the person I am talking, but did not find. I am talking about the one who said that Obama has some support in people votes because he is Adrican American. I am not a racist, but I agree with her conclusion. I think his race means as much as Mrs. Clinton's gender. I understand that people want to see in the candidate just a person, a leader. But it will never happen, just because we are a people and look at others through our own glass of opinions and views. I do not want to expand more on this subject, because I have to do my homework, which I am avoding already for more than hour and a half.

I am lazy, although I cannot afford to be

It is Friday morning. I have planned to do some homework, but I cannot do anything because I am sick, and because I just do not want to do anything :-) I have an interview in 3 hours, so I have read about my interviewers and about firm. Wish me luck.

A little about recent events and other things

First of all, I will exclaim, "Wow!!!" I did not know that my blog's link is on somebody's else blog. Thank you, David! Here is the link to David's blog, a person who was so kind to have some interest in my grammatically incorrect and spiritually barren blog. I also happily will post a link to David's blog in my list. BTW, David wrote Life of Alien. For a couple of weeks I am thinking whether I put correctly article "the" in front of "life." Anybody will help ESL student with articles? I do not want to seem unintelligent.

Although I have planned to describe my recent days in more details, I do not feel like to do that, so I will post them in brief order (not chronological) and go to treat myself with hot steam and hot tea, because I am sick. I hate to be sick.

My events:

1. More then a week ago I finally finished my trial brief. It was painful and went not very well. I worked on it Friday's evening, all Saturday and all Sunday, and yes, I was one of those students who did not sleep the night before Monday. Amazing, I was late with my papers in my life, but not as late as it was with this trial brief. I got up from the desk at 6.30 am on Monday and still did not do good job on checking my citations and grammar mistakes. But yes, I have finished it. Today I talked to my legal writing Prof. and she said I have a real problem with my grammar. I decided not to do a drama from this, because then I will not be able to start my appelate brief, which will cause worse problem. Moreover, she did not know that I have finished a half of the brief at night, so even writing on native language would not help me. I hope I will not get C. I will be happy even with B. It is only 30% of the grade, additionally, I do not deserve more.
2. Last week I had 2 interviews with law firms for my summer clerkship. One went quite tough - I saw 7 people and talked without stop. Another one was easier - no questions to me, all questions were from me, and we chatted for an hour. Before I began writing this post I had finished preparation for my tomorrow's interview with the third firm. I have used flash cards to make notes about firm, about the areas of the practice, and my questions. It is amazing how much time I can spend on interview preparation. I will have the result about each interview next week. I keep my fingers crossed, because I want this internship.
3. I got sick. I sneez and my throat is in pain. I think a law school killed all my immune system, because I do not remember days when I got sick so often.
4. People keep hitting my website by searching key words as "tired of law school (studying)" and "find motivation to study." Dear visitors, I am afraid you find yourself in disapointment after reading my stuff here that does not give any encoragment for better studying but only crying about the difficulties of the law school and studying. However, it is not my fault that Google likes my blog for those subjects. I also assume I have to right something marrier. However, I can assure my reader, that you will hardly find my blog by searching something like "happiness in a law school." well, there is a possibility that after two years Google will find my blog from the search of "happiness," but it will be in paralel with a word "graduation" not word "study."

Just some refreshment to my posts

A girl from my class gave me the link to her blog. She said she rights a diary since she was 7 or 10 and it helped her writing skills. Now I am sorry I did not do that. So now I decided I need to correct my situation and renew my writing to my diary or blog. Maybe it will help my poor writing skills? I hope my future employer will not read this post and this statement, or I will never have job with him/her.

I thought about writing short today, because it is almost 9 pm and I am sleepy and tired and empty headed (or heavy headed?). So today I have received that annoying letter from some lady/man from Africa who wants to transfer funds and needs my bank account. I have received many of those recently, so I wonder where the hell those people found my email address. My next question is whether they still find idiots who sends them their information. I think yes, there are still some, otherwise, those spammers would change theme. Actually, they do change it. Anyway, I replied to one of those emails, saying "back off, bustards!!!" I do not think it will stop them, but I had to get rid of my steam.

It is interesting to observe myself, though. When I am not satisfied with myself, when I am behind with my homework, or not successful with job etc, I try to prove myself in other places. For example, I am really misearable recently and I decided that if I cannot be ahead at school, I will try to be on the road. I must say it is very dangerous! You may assume, don't you? So on my way to school, this guy in red Jeep sat behind me so close that I wanted hit him with my pointy shoe in his rear. Then after his maneauvre to pass me, I accelerated to prevent him to get in front of me. I almost did it, but then I relaxed and this bustard cut me off and got in front of me. To my outrage he showed me f***. This made me violant, outrageous and other conditions describing a blond without mind. I hit the pedal and sat on the rear of that red Jeep till the guy turned to the ramp, which happened a couple miles after our burning conflict. What was interesting to observe, that I was not tense. As a rule when I do such bad things I am tense and always think if I should do this. But today, I honestly enjoyed it. Does it mean that lack of sleep and unsuccess in life makes me risky? This is not a good thing.

By the way, I always try to write something smart and intelligent. For example, talking about laws and my opinions. But I cannot come up with a subject. I even begin thinking maybe I really am not interested in the law, if I do not reflect any emotions? Tough question, isn't it? I also hope I am mistaken, because I enjoy law. lol

Shooting in the school again!!

What is going on with those people???!!! Shooting again, this time in Ill. Now I begin thinking how safe it is in my school?

Monday can be hard, but nice too

Finally!... I have brought my hand up and answered on CrimLaw. Even twice. Our professor encourages reponses by adding point to my total on exam. So I am glad I have begun. Now I just need keep moving.

How to find motivation for studying

It is Saturday. It is almost 5 pm. And I did not begin to do my homework. So I have googled "how to find motivation to do homework." I have found nice result here. I did not find many of advices for me, therefore, I took some of them and now I post here.

1. Think of the consequences. What will happen if you don't do your homework? You'll get a bad grade? Your teacher will be disappointed in you? If none of these things seem to apply to you, remember that homework is to help you learn, which everyone ultimately wants. In the real world, knowledge helps you master the rules of the game...and if you don't know the rules, how are you going to win? If Knowledge is Power...Ignorance is minimum wage.
2. If you really don't want to do your homework, then just get everything ready to do your homework: paper, pencil, textbook, and cup of tea. Then sit down and open the book to the page you need to read. Then read the first paragraph. Usually by then you will feel that you can write the first sentence. Break it down into little bites.
3. Do the hardest work first. This means the more you do it, the easier it gets.
4. It's easier to recall something if you remembered it under a similar environment (known as state-dependent learning). That's why it is important to study at a table and with proper lighting instead of reading on your bed, for example. (I do like to study in bed, but I noticed I do not remember much from it).
5. Also, think about the better grades you might get if you do your homework consistently. (EXACTLY!!!!)

I have looked into another link How-to-Be-A-Student. Yeah, general conclusion from it - study and study.

I think I am motivated now! Better I will begin read ConLaw. I am behind like 20 pages and then he gave us to read another 30. Total 50 pages to go for the next 3-4 hours.

Friday, the day of small relax- and a little about my new policy

I have not been writing for a while and I can explain it with me being busy with studying and moot court. Yes, I finally have experienced moot court competition. My other reason of some fear to spit my thoughts and feelings I have had recently about law school in general and my success. Past week was a torture for me, because each morning I got up with a thought of hatred for law school and the whole system. I hated it because I had hard time to figure out many things and because I did not have enough of sleep, I felt that I am behind of everybody, and it made me even worse. I went to read some blogs and with some disgust read how people enjoy a law school. Finally, I have overcome those feeling. I think I just needed a good sleep, and I had it. Now I am motivated and even happy. Honestly, not very much happy, because I am still behind with my Legal Writing research. But it is ok, I will begin it as soon as I finish this post.

Now about a moot court. Many people say that they had an enjoyment from it. I did, but I guess not fully, because at the end of the day I felt exhausted and on the edge of a break down. It was competition between teams of my school and another school of our state. Another school prepares for those competitions seriously, unlike my school. That is why each year law students of my school are very motivated to participate in that competition, but, unfortunately, still everybody not as good prepared as students from another school. To my shame, I must confess that I was one of those students. Actually, I tried hard, but I did not manage my time correctly, and as a result, I prepared my opening statement right before rounds. Of course, I received less points for almost reading from my notes. However, both judges (we had two rounds) admitted that my voice is persuasive, and the text of opening statement was great (wow... what a surprise, I guess I am not so bad in writing). BUT... as judges pointed out, I need to have more confidence. oh, well, what confidence may I have not having text and worrying that I might mixed up the grammar. Luckily, I had a very good partner, so he scored for us more points than we expected. Though, I did well on one of cross-examinations.

We did not get into semifinal, but we won one round out of 2, which is encouraging. If I have another opportunity to participate in a moot court, I will try to do that, although I have decided that litigation is not for me - too much of writing, research and very stressful. Now my reader, possibly thinks, that then I should not be a lawyer at all. Yes, it would be a good point. But I think, I have such a view about litigation, because I continuously try to overcome my fear of using another language from my native. Litigation requires those skills, that I did not develop well, at least at this point. Although I liked to be in front of the judge and roar at another counsel.

What will I do differently next time in preparation to moot court:

1. prepare opening (closing) statement beforehand, memorize it, and repeat it a couple of time with (or without) audience.
2. think in more detail about the picture of my client and what I want to prove (I really missed this point).
3. read more the Evidence rules. I lacked of it on my objections
4. work with witnesses and train them how to respond and how to be difficult witness
5. read more about difficult witnesses and how to handle them
6. feel more confident and try not to be led in all questions by my partner.

Although competitions are fun, I am now behind in my reading, and this weekend will be spent in reading cases and legal research.

By the way, I spend some time on the web site of former classmates. I was suprised how interesting the lives of people came up. For example, I had that classmate who studied in a school on Cs and weak Bs. Now he is the manager of one of the departments in court. What do I lead to? Even bad students can get job, so should I worry about my grades as much?

Just short note, I have no strength to write more

I am very busy those days with preparations to a moot court I will have this Saturday. I was so frustraited with myself that I did not sleep all night and as a result I am sleepy now and do not want to do anything else, but lie my head on the pillow and fall into DEEP sleep.

Here is new site I just find Shark. It is dedicated to law school. oh.. soon I will be sick just from a word "law school," but no explanation to this comment will be given now. Later on. Cheers.

Dear attorneys, did you forget your times of job searching?

Note I wrote next day:
I was tired and made, sleepy and upset, therefore this post has many mistakes. however, I am not going to edit them. What for? Why not to see my insanity? :-)
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So I just have come back from Skills Program meeting in one of the law firms in the city. I like such type of meetings. This one was particularly directed on diverse participants. I like such events but sometimes they bring me upset thoughts. Today it was that case when I left the office being frustraited. I will not mention the point that I came to go through a mock job interview and hoped it will prepare me for interviews I will hopefully have for my clerkship program. However, they gave me the guy who worked in the company for a week and who by himself just recent graduate. Then there was a board of practicing attorneys who talked about the career and how great legal career is. First, I am kind of tired of those long-minutes speeches about how-we-became-great-lawyers. Surely all lawyers like to talk about themselves, and it was interesting for me to know how they got their success. Though I do not long speeches, and today some of them were long. Then there was a question to them about the grades, something like, "obviously 90% of the class are not at the top of the class, so how to find a job for those not 10%." At this point I have heard a lot of fairy tales. One of female attorneys told that she participated in hiring and stressed out that she rarely looked into the grades. What??? I asked myself and virtually her. Then tell me why do I saw that upset face of my career adviser after I told him my GPA? Something like "well, girl, and you want to find some job? go better and study!" Or those articles telling about hard time to find job with low GPA and how picky those large law firms about hiring. Just yesterday on career web site I saw the ad of Excel Energy who were looking for intern from 10% top class.

Another guy from the board talked about the importance of reputation but not a career.

Now it is time for my speech. Dear, attorneys, did you forget the times when you were looking for jobs and you were asked for your GPA? The lady from the board while talking about her grraduation and looking for job proudly announced that she was not in the top of the class but very close. So if the grades are not so important, why do you mention them so proudly? Why do you ask me to send you a transcript together with my resume?

I do not want to seem paranoid, but I do not like to be misled! But this is what happened to me at that meeting. I agree, the grades will not matter in the court room or five years past gradution, but the question is how to get into the law firm after graduation. Despite the clear question from somebody's email and expectations of participants to hear the reality, we did not receive the right, real answer. I am disappointed.

Second week of second semester

So this is Wednesday, second week of my new semester. From anger and frustration after I saw my grades, I switched to the position of self-denial and criticism. I know that there is nobody to blame for my falling down but myself, because I did not put enough effort into studying. I have noticed that last weekend. I had three days off and I did almost nothing for school. BTW, those days were possibly the best days of the year. I relaxed, I did not have bad thoughts about the grades, I knew what I have and that I could not change them. I cooked, walked, went to gym. Finally I have sent my paperwork for citizenship. Hopefully, in a year I will carry that blue passport with eagle on it. :-) And no need for visas anymore. What a dream.

School goes ok. But I do not want to write much about it, because it is almost 10 and I want to sleep. I have another two days to survive and tomorrow I have a bunch of appointments.

I feel sorry I write only about law school. I think I need to mix in somethings. But what ? :)

My disapointments, I am afraid not last ones

If a law school makes somebody think "like a lawyer," it is not my case. The law school makes me think "like a loser." I guess the reader guessed that I have recieved my first semester grades, and, yes, they suck. My feelings went through gradual development:

1. suprise and astoonishment when I have received my first grade on Contracts, and even more suprise and astonishment after I have received my Property and Civ Pro.

2. next I was crying. I am a woman and I am emotional person, how else will I get rid of my emotions. I cried like a crazy, but good for not so long.

3. Next round was continued with the feeling of stupidity, "What!? I am so bad? I cannot believe I am so stupid!!!"

4. The next round was worse - from love to hateress (love was at the beginning of the semester). I hated a law school, myself and professors. I had to go to buy the books for the next semester and could not even sit in the car thinking how disgusted I am even to see the school.

5. The fifth round was mixed with fourth. The rage was added. I was soooo mad I did badly on the exams. I was sooo mad my professors gave me the questions I did not know how to answer. I was ashamed of my rage and nothing I could do.

Finally, the round of bad grades was over after I have got assurance from professors and a register that I am not on probation.

The hatrad to the law school and professors almost has gone. The professors are innocent, aren't they? I looked into the exams and I was 100% at fault to miss that painful issue of Post Consideration. I mean I did well at multiple, but I failed on essay. I cannot believe I missed that easy points!!! But all this behind. Though, I left with a bad GPA of 2.6. What a disaster.

Watching students receiving their grades were miserable view - anger, happiness, smiles and disapointments. "I was ready to kill that girl who complained she did not get A, but A-." Those phrases I heard a couple of times. Honestly, I was thinking that way too, just I did not uttered it.

One of the disappointments for me was Property. My professor told me I have analytical skills but I do not know how to put that on paper. What a bummer! He said,"the lawyer has to know how to write." Yeah, I know, I tell this myself everyday while thinking on whether I has to use article "a" or "the." I guess I am not as smart to know how to write as a lawyer! F*** This is what I was afraid of. Damn it, I will not quite anyway, although ConLaw and Criminal Law seemed to be even worse from what I had last semester. Now I will have to afraid of probation for sure.

Briefly about my plans for the next couple months:
1) I work on internships. Although my grades are really bad, I hope to get something
2) I will participate in a moot court competition. I am realy excited about it
3) I will work on changing studying schedule. i was lazy last semester and my grades perfectly reflected this. Therefore, let's go into the heart of the battle - the living in the law school.

Also, I miss my parents, I want to go home at least for a month. I always feel that way when I have a hard time in my life.

My site meter

I thought nobody ever looked at my web site before, but what a surprise was to see that some google links brought viewers to my blog :-) However, a sad news is the inquiries that brought them to me:

"students uncondidence for asking"
"tired of (from) studying"
"I cannot believe I did this to myself"

I do not know if I should laugh or cry, but those inquiries seem to my depressing. well, at list "the law student and Valentine's day" brings some cheerfulness into the life of my blog :-)

hmmmm

Ok, a couple hours passed since I saw my Contracts grade, and I TELL you - I am MAD. I am mad on myself, and at the same time I am bevildered. I cannot believe I did so bad. I tried so hard, I was so sure that I did well. Now, after reading online articles about grades, I see my situation even worse, because only 25 % of students get grade below B-. and 50-75% of the students get B, B+, B-. How would you feel to know that I am the one who is on the end of this list? This is just awful. Of course, I am not going to bit myself for this, but now I am impatient to know what I did wrong. Whether it was my multiple choice or my writing?? Damn, I was so sure I did super well. Now I am afraid of other grades. I tried calculator, and there is no way I will make it higher than 3.0. I feel like a looser. I have to work how to lose this feeling because it will make worse my next semester. F***!

Relief??

So if I go for search a google and typed "law school grades", it means I stressed out about it? I think so. I have found nice post, not recent though.

More on Bad Law School Grades
I don't have much more to say about getting off to a bumpy start in law school, gradewise. But good heavens, lots of people are doing Google searches or writing me about it. My heart goes out to all of those of you who were disappointed, heartbroken, shaken by your grades, who are now doubting yourself and looking to Google to make sense of it all.

Look, guys, I got a C- and a C+ my first semester of law school. (And two A-s and a B+, to be complete). I was 22nd in the class after that. The next semester I got two As, a couple of A-s, and another B+, and I was 4th in the class. I just kept moving up, and I graduated first. So it's not hopeless. You're not destined to have dismal grades for the rest of your law school career. They needn't hold you back.

Stop gnashing your teeth about what these grades MEAN about who you are and what you're capable of and what the Rest of Your Life is limited to. You are just as smart as you were the day before you got your grades. And now you know something you didn't know before: what to expect from law school exams. March your butt into your professors' offices and sit down with the exam and talk to them about it. We all know you studied your head off, but did you articulate what you knew, or did you study the wrong stuff, or did you have trouble identifying the issues, or were you a disorganized mess, or did you confuse the terminology, or what? Whichever one(s) it was, you're going to fix it next semester. The professor will help you, if you ask. And now you know to ask.

I hope she is right, but then will I be able to make it next semester????!!!!

Time to cry???

Ok, I have recieved my first grade. No shame to tell you that I missed a point to get B-, as a result I have C+. I am not disappointed, I am surprised. After Contracts exam (this is where I have recieved this grade) I felt I did well. Now I see again that my fear is fullfiled. Each time I feel good after exam or any other event that can change something in my life, that exam or event goes badly. Isn't it weird? But when I feel bad, the event goes quite well. So I hope I will not get C on my Property exam.

My days

Less than a week left before the beginning of the semester. I have a work to do, like personal statement, resume and cover letters for internship. But I did not do anything. Like, for example, today I have spent whole day surfing Internet and doing videos from Florida. I am going to send a parcel to my mom, and as a rule I send DVD with other stuff. Now there are some things to send to her, so I need to hurry up to finish DVD. BTW, my stories came up quite interesting. I hope my parents will like them too.

Lawyers and Joes

happy New Year to everybody. I hope this year will be not worse than a past year. I have read my horoscop and ... yesss ... it said a lot of good things about my future. I am really happy.

Right now we are in Florida. Of course, word Florida rises in imaginations palms and unvelievably warm weather. To our greatest disappointement only first part is true about our trip, but weahter turned its back on us, and we disparately suffer cold wind, temperature of mid 40s and lack of sun. We came to Florida with shorts and t-shirts and will leave with hats and gloves we bought in the local Walmart to save ourselves from awful cold weather.

But my story is not about bad weather. It is the storytelling about what happened to use today. This is the story:

Once upon a time... No, it is not mine. Let me try again. So today we went to Orlando downtown to look around, find more cultural entertainment beyond boring and crowded DisneyWorld. After we hit the narrow streets of Orlando we found one parking spot near a meter. Dane turned into it began to back up. Going back in the timeline of my story I have to tell you that we rented Toyota Prius. I am not much in love with this car, I think it needs some work on it, but we found very funny feature - camera on the back of a car that turns on when the car is in reverse mode. As a result of camera use fun Dane used the camera quite often, same in Orlando when he backed up into the parking spot. While he was doing this he commented that the car behind us is surely lawyer's car. I looked carefully into the screen and noticed BMW emblem on the car's front. When Dane backed up too close to BMW behind we suddenly heard screams, "What are you doing? Don't you see where you go?" Those shouts were of the owner of fancy BMW. We stopped, but he continued screaming. Dane got out of the car and began pointing into the camera, and laughing explained that there is a camera and we know how close we back up. The guy (average looking in white shirt and black pants with a bunch of papers underarm) seemed to get queiter with his screams mumbling something like, "Anyway I would not trust this cameras." His next phrase made me laugh. What do you think he told? I will not guess. He said, "you could damage my car. By the way I am a lawyer!" He told this in such a way as if he said, "I a killer" or "I am a President of the United States" No, no... as if he said, "I am God!" First it seemed to me funny because Dane was 100% right that the guy is a lawyer. But then after we left shaking his hand and asking about interesting places in Orlando, I thought through this story. That Orlando attorney afterwards seemed to me arrogant bustard who thinks that if he has a law degree and drives BMW he may threat me with his knowledge and ability to sue me for any reason or fault he may find. Now I understand why so many people hate lawyers, those arrogant asses who thinks they are gods. Indeed, after first semester in the law school I had a power of the knowledge, the ability to protect myself and others by legal ways. However, after today I feel kind of ashamed for having such feeling, because I should not have use my knowledge to be in superiority over other Joes who does not know the law as good as even a law student. Yes, I do not want to work for public law (although I hope I will keep my promise to myself to take some pro bono cases) and I am thinking more about making money. However, it does not allow me to turn into the monster who does not care about others and who knows only own business and not others.

Despite my love to the law, and happiness of knowledge of many things more than others, I hope most of law students will not turn into this guy on Orlando streets who thinks it is normal to threaten ordinary people with "I am a lawyer" thing. Beware arrogant asses, soon I will be equal to you and I am not going to back up in my defense by silence, I will tell you, "I am not care who you are and what school you graduated from, you are the same live person as I am, so behave as a human."

I took a picture of BMW and our rented Prius just to keep the story in mind.