1st Day as a 1L

Today constituted the beginning of my legal education and it wasn't as bad as I had made it out to be. Ok, it WAS just orientation and I'm sure they don't want to scare you off on the first day, but there were a few things that I'm glad I found out before the ACTUAL first day which is Monday.

1. Law Proffs. are human. At least the ones I met today were. They may hide the evil ones in the back until you're locked into your loans and then they let them run amuck. But the ones I met today were affable and surprisingly realistic about the law profession in general. I mean realistic in the sense that the acknowledged all the bad things people have to say about lawyers, at the same time making a distinction between good lawyers and ones that give "us" a bad name.(And I use "us" in the broadest of terms)
2. I'm not way out of my league. All this summer I had this feeling of impending doom and a "last man walking" mentality. The self-doubt and waiting combo were just too much. However, sitting in class today during a few lectures and then a workshop on how to brief a case I couldn't help but step back and think "this isn't horribly horrible". Its going to be a whole lot of work and it will mos def get harder, but I'm not completely clueless. Some of the kids in class were way more lost at sea then I think I could ever be. We'll see how this holds up. :)
3. There is no three, I just don't think a two item list is very good at all. I'm not even sure if that would be considered a list.
   

I went and got half my books today. It weighted down my back, but sure did lighten up my wallet. I think total its going to run like a grand for ONE SEMESTER. Suckage. Majorly so.

All in all I'm excited, so much so that I decided to chronicle this experience online because its just THAT damn important. Matt Drudge eat your heart out.


Until then...