My mentor says I should be studying eight hours a day. I study eight hours a week. Am I the worst law student or the smartest? My peers are studying more and I'm just above the average grade in our hardest class. I feel confident that I will do well on finals. Meanwhile, my mentor thinks it's a bad idea to go out of town for Thanksgiving because ( Read more... )

I think at the beginning every month this year I've committed to changing my bad habits, and then I don't. Well, this month I have to. God has blessed me way too much for me to contribute to my own downfall, especially health-wise. So, once again, but foreal, I am not drinking (except a cocktail when I go out to dinner, which is twice a month.) I ( Read more... )

I actually failed my Torts midterm, which I knew I bombed, but I'm still somehow surprised. I thought I would at least get a C minus, because of the curve (that I don't understand.) It was devastating to get a personal email from the professor with the breakdown of scoring. She's really nice though and wants to schedule a time to meet to help me. I ( Read more... )

This has been a hard year. It's been interesting...but there's been so many drastic changes that have made me act abnormally. I literally just ate three cheese danishes in 10 minutes. That's what I mean. Like, have I become a stress eater? Is this because I'm not drinking?  I never thought I'd be that person.

I also never thought I would befriend ( Read more... )

I miss my grandmother. I think of her every other day, and I cry. I think about how I was fully prepared to leave home, but also expecting to come home twice a month and tell her how law school is. I imagined myself telling her how things are going...how it's not as white as I thought it would be, which is good. That sorta comment would've elicited ( Read more... )

Not sure how I'm feeling... There are two and a half months left of my first semester of law school. I have one grade back and it was a B minus. That was a quiz. I've taken two midterms since, and I'm really eager to see how I'm doing, so I can course correct accordingly. I know I'm not doing law school the way my peers are, and I've felt okay with ( Read more... )

It's a lot of "out of sight, out of mind stuff" happening. And that really reaffirms my decision to leave the state...to leave my life as I knew it...the norm...and to start something new. All the people that I thought were truly for me have shown their true selves since I've been away, and it's only been two months. That's remarkable. But, better ( Read more... )

Not a single day goes by when I'm on that campus that I am not aware of how privileged I am to be in law school. I tear up thinking about how unreal this is...not just for me...but for those who were before me...

I think about my grandmother... She once looked at me in admiration and pride, "you look like a secretary." She smiled at that and I ( Read more... )

He quit. He never gathered the nerve to even call me back. Tomorrow is our board meeting and he sent an email today, short and full of shit, quitting. Claiming that his job is too demanding for any extra roles now. If that's true, why couldn't he call me back? If that's true, why did he get off the phone in a hissy fit? He has to know I'm smarter ( Read more... )

He's a shitty business colleague. He missed the first meeting. He was fifteen minutes late to the last meeting. And today's meeting, he didn't call in...I had to call him, and he was brushing his teeth. I couldn't hold it in any longer. I let him know how unprofessional and seemingly unserious he is in this role. And he didn't respond. I asked him ( Read more... )