Monthly Archives: April 2011

To Paper or not to Paper

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.  

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Into the Wild

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.

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Glasses half full of it

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.

Regardless of the water level, graduation approaches.

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Tying Up Loose Ends. Carefully.

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.

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