Orientation: Day 3/Legal Methods - August 23, 2007

Finally I can see the light; the light in this case is not necessarily a happy light. Think headlight on a train.

The 9:00AM start was not as bad as the previous day, but I had to deal with the stress of going to an actual class with a professor who was actually going to have an effect on my future. Grades are stressful.

I was pleasantly content with my Legal Writing and Research professor who I have seen instruct a class previously. When I interviewed for the fellowship, which will seemingly run my life when I am a 2L and 3L, we sat in on a class (Appellate Advocacy)where she was the professor.

I remain intensely content with the subject matter. I was trying to figure out why I am so interested in the subject matter, and I think two things are coming into play. The first deals with the fact that I had a conniption yesterday when I realized that I would be a practicing attorney in three years -- a thought that was as exciting as it is scary -- and that I have wanted to begin my professional career for some time. The second reason is wholly laden in the influence my father has had in my life.

I realize that I will be able to speak the same language as my father. I will be able to understand, converse with and analyze fully those things my father has and will talk to me regarding. Like my mother having introduced me to logic games (setting me up for success on the LSAT) and creating a monster of an English master of me (making me expressive in ways my high school English teachers told me was not possible), my father has given me Neil Armstrong's giant leap for law school by talking, albeit incessantly, about his day at both the dinner table when I was young and every day when I was in college.

Sleep calls. Studying awaits my wake from slumber.