Sunday, August 29, 2010

Biggest Fear, check

My biggest fear is being called on and NOT knowing the correct answer.
The first full week of law school has come and gone and I have already faced my biggest fear.
I just had that feeling that I was going to be called on.
I was raising my hand for the case we were reviewing before hand, but of course the professor was not calling on anyone else expect the person that he picked to decipher the case.
So there I am, sitting in the back of the classroom, nodding my head in agreement with whatever was said and then raising my hand trying to help the other guy out.
Long and behold I get called on. Totally not understanding the vocabulary that the professor uses and mortified because I'm getting half of the questions wrong.
So glad that I was "saved by the bell" and class ended. I felt bad for dragging the class down with me, but I seriously was lost in the wording of his questions. I was trying my best and I absolutely read the case, understood the case but for could not get past a few points. I was jumping some high hurdles trying to answer those questions.
In the end, I spoke with the professor and he proceeded to give me a high five and some daps!
If I could get through it, anyone can.
I feel that I have already conquered something I never thought I would, although I was in forced to do so.
I wonder what this next week has in store for me next.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

1L

This is my first post as a 1L.
For those of you that do not know what 1L means, it is a term used to refer to first year law school students.
I decided to start this blog since I ended the one I made for the bay area the day I moved.
A blog is also a good release for the stress that I will undergo for the next 3 years.
I am hoping to keep the blogs going as much as I can but as you can imagine, law school take time and the best of me.
Kat and I are going on our 8th hour in the library. We have only been in law school for 3 days.
The reading is definitely unbearable but I think we could have knocked out a lot of stuff today if we did not log onto facebook. I'm estimating we wasted at least an hour on that darn website. Oh fb, you are so useless and time consuming at times.
I am actually done with my work that is due tomorrow. I probably should get to Tuesday's work but I'm going to credit myself by beginning this blog.
This blog also serves the purpose to let people somehow get the jests of what 1L's go though.
As I type this my cousin tells me to wake her in 5 minutes since she's tired as hell. LOL... and this is only the beginning.
I've got to say that I'm lucky to already have 2 people that I'm close to share this experience with me.
1 my closest cousin Kat
2 my LSAT buddy Kirk
It is pretty awesome that Kat and I started Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) at the same time.
At least we have a support system together. We already met some awesome people and created our own secret society, which will be revealed later on in the semester!
Anyway, I would like to apologize for anything that is grammatically incorrect. I will often write this blog tired and delirious, as I am now. I will never proof read it and it will probably not have a consistent flow.