They say that a good law professor can look at a classroom of students and see what kind of lawyer each student will turn out to be, and through a skillful use of the socratic method, they can push each of their students into becoming that lawyer.

I sometimes wonder if Professor Sovern could see what kind of lawyer I was going to become. I didn' ( Read more... )

Week 1 ( Read more... )

At last the first day of school was here. Columbia required all first year law students to take an introductory law class before the semester started. In some ways it was a pretty good idea. It was a three week class meant to give first years a taste of the semester to come and hopefully it was meant to provide useful background information and ( Read more... )

I guess I should start at the beginning of my experience at CLS ( Read more... )

All right, I know I said I was going to start the Law School Diaries or whatever, but I'm adding something else in here real quick. I am a growing fan of Breaking the Set with reporter Abby Martin and I've been watching her show for a couple of weeks now. That said, I find some of the stuff I've seen on her show a little problematic and I think I ( Read more... )

Thanks to Adelisse I've come to the realization that I could benefit from some reflective time on LJ. Writing can be fairly cathartic and I think it's about time I started airing out some of the trauma I accumulated throughout my tenure in Columbia Law School. I lost myself in the walls of those buildings and since graduating I've been searching, ( Read more... )

I always feel like I'm walking the edge of sanity in this place.

Law School is dominated by two things.
1) Homework
2) Exams

Ok. I'll add one more.
3) Anxiety

Anxiety for your future. Anxiety over your inadequacies. Anxiety over how you are perceived (intelligent/gunner/cool <- yes we are in highschool again). Anxiety over pretty much everything. In fact, you can even get anxiety over not having enough anxiety ( Read more... )

Do you ever feel growing pains? You know, like, you're in a new place in life and you're changing. Your body has become a cocoon and has crystallized in time around you while your insides are changing and shifting. Things are moving around, parts of yourself that were once essential are being discarded and new parts are forming and growing out of ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last Kung Fu class ( Read more... )