First Peek Back

Tonight is our section dinner. Next week is our last week of class. I can't believe the first semester of law school is almost over!

Well, not quite over. Exams loom large and the prospect of them is quite scary. But still, apparently we (at least most of us) will have learned all we need to know for crim law, torts, and civ pro by NEXT WEEK! We then have to study for two weeks and then face the music.

Gulp.

I am sad that the first semester is over. I've met some really great people here and made a bunch of good friends. Law school is very different from what I had imagined before I came (read: much better).

I know that next semester, when we are all taking different electives and only have two classes together, the atmosphere is probably going to be very different. We are probably not going to have the intense cohesion that we had in this first semester, when everything was brand new, when everyone is slightly scare and uncertain, and when we developed a closeness and bond that only people who experienced something intense and meaningful could.

Legal education, and especially the first year of it, with all its flaws, has been wonderful and eye-opening as well. It has been good to me. And for that, I'm very glad.

And Boyfriend has been wonderful as well. He gave me the space to experience the year to its fullest, while never wavering in his support. Yeah, I feel pretty lucky.

So far, no regrets on coming to law school. I hope exams won't change that. I hope nothing will change that