Anyone who is in Evanston, go to the lakefill in the far corner by the lake furthest away from Norris where you can see the skyline. There is a rock that my girlfriend painted purple and white for me that says Happy 22nd Birthday Jon Ksiazek. She got up at 9am on Saturday and drove out to Evanston to paint it. I think that it is the best ( Read more... )

you know your girlfriend loves you when she brings over chipotle. i'm easy to please

My birthday is in one week. Normally this would excite me, or at least make me have a big smile on my face. And it does make me smile still, knowing that I most likely will be hanging out in Chicago with my girlfriend and then spending the rest of the day with my family and having a nice relaxing time at home without thinking about law school. ( Read more... )

I have less than a month until my first law school exam. They are seriously freaking us out about them. "Finals are coming, finals are coming." "You need to get on that job stuff asap." "You need to start outlining, outlining, outlining." Seems like this is all I have heard in the past week and a half. I have been kind of ahead of the game ( Read more... )

I don't honestly feel like I'm in law school, I feel like I'm in regular school with a little more work. Either I'm handling it really well (I've only been stressed out maybe 2 or 3 times since I've been down here), or I don't know if that fact that I am truly in law school has hit me yet. Sure, I'm bombarded by the law everyday in my classes. ( Read more... )

Time for the first in a series of Jon's Class Rankings, copyright 2005 all rights reserved ( Read more... )

Sometimes things are going so well, you have to have little reminders that put you back in your rightful place in the universe. I suffered a little bit of Champaign culture shock when I went to get my haircut on Tuesday and went to a place called "Custom Cuts", basically a Great Clips knock-off. Let me just say that in Evanston I got to ( Read more... )

Hey people...I'm working on my 4th week of law school already which is kind of scary. I'm pretty much adjusted to Champaign, but it definitely hasn't grown on me in the way that Evanston did almost right away. But that's okay, my days are spent mostly at the law school and if I have too much free time on my hands then there is a problem. I ( Read more... )

Law school is in full swing in this the second week, and I have already felt its wrath. Yesterday I got called on in Property (for those of you who don't know in Law School they go by the Socratic Method, basically the teachers call on students for answers. It's meant to put you on your toes and keep you prepared and show you how much you really ( Read more... )

Yo. So lots has gone on in my life during the past two weeks, mostly importantly I suppose is that I now live in Champaign and law school has started. The past three days of work have been some of the most intense homework wise I have ever had in any of my schooling and I have a feeling it will only get worse. We're talking 4-5 hours a day at ( Read more... )