Exam Season Has Begun

Tomorrow is the first day 1Ls can start sending cover letters and resumes to potential employers for summer employment. Too bad I have not done any research whatsoever about this. Argh!

The last few days have been very full. So far every evening this week I have been going to an event at my law school. This certainly fills up my schedule but I figure this is what I came to law school for. On Monday I saw the general counsel of Microsoft give a speech about the future of technology. It turned out not to be that interesting because the questions that people asked him were way too detailed to be comprehensible for a non-techie like me.

Yesterday it was Michael Jackson's lawyer and Dan Abrams talking about the Michael Jackson trial. Tom Mesereau, MJ's lawyer, is a really good speaker and was very very smooth. Abrams was surprisingly short and appeared nervous in the beginning (said "um" a lot, etc). But he gradually got better. It was entertaining to see Mesereau passionately attacking the media for treating MJ unfairly (and he was quite convincing about it; I was surprised myself) while Abrams was sitting on stage and then Abrams giving a spirited defense of the media. This was well worth it.

Today, the author of a very well-written and best-selling civ pro hornbook came to campus to give students exam-taking advice. He was well-spoken and brief. The entire thing only took about 40 minutes but was pretty helpful.

Today I also went with my study group to my civ pro professor's office hours and met with her as a group and asked questions. THAT was very helpful as well. My civ pro professor, although unbearably boring in class, is extremely nice in person. She's also very tall, very elegant, and very beautiful. Today I learned for the first time that she was an all-star basketball player when she was in college.

Exam season is really upon us. All of our professors have begun giving out advice about exams, etc. So far, no changes in the behavior of my classmates yet, although I am being watchful and keeping my fingers crossed that no one does anything psychotic. (You never know...)

I emailed each of the profeessors asking them to meet with my entire study group and answer our questions about exams. All of them wrote back and arranged times. Today was the fist meeting and went very well. Yes I'm proud of myself.

Lots of social activities planned for the next few days. Let's hope I can squeeze job-finding and studying in as well...