| | i finally got my last grade (Property) today! God saved the best for last...it was the best grade I received all year long! i honestly did not expect to do that well...the fact that our prof threw a word count on the exam with no advance notice whatsoever was a gigantic curveball (anyone who reads this knows that brevity is NOT my strong suit!) and the multiple choice questions were incredibly difficult and covered all of the material about which i was least confident. too bad this isn't one of the classes for which the school has a teaching assistant, because i would love to be a teaching assistant for this class! i probably did well because we talked about social justice-esque topics in the class and because the material had a lot of relevance to public interest law...people can whine and moan that she didn't teach the class for the bar exam, but i'm glad that she taught the class in a manner that equips us to help the less fortunate!
the other night, my mom asked me if my first year was what i thought it was going to be. i honestly didn't have much of an answer. i still don't, really. in some ways, it was exactly what i expected, but it was very different in other ways. i can say, though, that i am glad that i made the decision to go to law school, and that although there are other career paths (writer, chef, fantasy sports blogger) that i would love to do, i am excited about all of the opportunities that will be available in the future for me.
i am stoked for my classes next year!
Tax I: i know this might not sound fascinating, but i have not heard a bad word spoken about the prof who teaches it. she's testified in front of the Senate and she also has won a ton of awards for quality teaching.
Legal Response to Terrorism: this is going to be awesome, especially as the decisions regarding what to do with the Guantanamo detainees play out
Labor Law: every time i thought about dropping this so that i could have some evenings free, i thought about bruce springsteen's music. i thought about the hard working union men and women all around America who have been royally screwed by Republicans and how nothing makes me happier than to stick it to greedy, money-grubbing corporate executives who want to screw hard working union men and women and move jobs overseas, and i decided to take this class.
Immigration Law: sheila and i will be taking our first, and probably only, class together! the prof is very well known and i am excited.
Legal Writing-Family Law Drafting: this is very practical and the prof is a judge, and since judges are the folks whom one needs to impress with briefs, why not learn from one?
Constitutional Law: this is going to be great! the prof is awesome and i am very excited to talk about many of the issues that come up as part of the class.
so, that's that. Animal Law didn't make the cut this time around, which sucks because i would love to work for the HSUS if we wind up in DC next summer and this course would be very helpful. it's on monday night and i am not sure if there would be enough time to go from Immigration Law down to CSU for Animal Law. i would love to do stuff with puppy mills and to help prosecute people who think that it's okay to endanger the lives of poor, defenseless puppies in order to make a profit.
gotta go to bed so i can get up early tomorrow morning and put all of this legal knowledge to use!
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