Ye Gods, how time flies.

It has been almost a month since I posted. I've been meaning to post for weeks now, but I just recently got internet at my apartment, and the time that I did spend on the internet was spent filtering through hundreds (and I'm not exaggerating here) of emails from the law school list serves telling me about every law school event known to man. There are many, many, many, many, many student organizations at the school. I'm trying to keep track of which ones I want to be a part of.

Back to the beginning: the administration absolutely inundated us with advice at orientation. Don't use study aides, do use study aides, spend three hours on homework outside of class for every hour you spend inside of class, start outlining early, don't outline right away, make sure to get involved in student organizations but also get your work done - by the end I was ready to just start.

The first week was completely overwhelming. I had never been so happy for a weekend. But at the same time I began to feel as though I could handle this.

My classes are as follows: (All first year students take the same classes with the same 60 people for the whole year)

Civil Procedure
Criminal Law
Legal Research and Writing
Contracts
Torts

With the exception of Legal Research and Writing, the grades for those classes are determined by one exam at the end of the semester. I'm looking forward to Christmas but first I have to survive the exams. But those are months away.

I am doing one volunteer thing for sure - I am working at our county's legal aid as a volunteer intake interviewer. I hear people's legal issues, present them to the attorney in a concise way, and then convey the information back to the people. I really enjoy it. It feels as though I'm actually giving back to the community. I am also going to be involved in the Public Interest Public Service, Women's Legal Forum and Streetlaw clubs. We'll see how all of those go.

I study every spare moment. Constantly. Which is why the weekends are such a blessing - I can at least take a couple of hours to relax before delving back into it.