Once you get out of your first year, many law school classes will allow you to choose between taking a test at the end of the term and writing a paper. I always choose the paper.
It’s a dark and stormy night. I want you all to know that it is still Friday as I begin to type this, and therefore, if it is not posted until Saturday (or sometime thereafter) it’s because of storm related power/modem loss, not my poor time management.
Ahem.
Today I spent my first morning the magistrate’s court with as a public defender intern.
People keep posting count-downs to graduation on gchat and facebook. I think they are meant to be encouraging, something about how close we’re getting. . . apparently I’m not a glass half-full sort of person. I look at the numbers and think, my god, I have to take two tests and write about 60 pages of research brilliance between now and then. And when it’s over, I have to find a Real Job. So I guess you could say that my joy can be contained, at this point.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve spoken with a lot of people about the speaker for our graduation ceremony – initially because I believed I would be writing an article on it for the Docket. An article, by the way, that I did not volunteer for, though I thought it was important that someone (preferably someone else) wrote it. I will not be writing that article, for the reasons articulated below. For those of you who are curious, here is what I know about the course of events that will leave Docket readers with no news about the speaker controversy, but which has had some positive result.