My Law School Metaphor

Alright... so I've finally figured out my metaphor for what the law school experience is.

Today one of my professors was talking to me about doorways that are getting increasingly smaller (about this point I started thinking oompa-loompa land and little orange men) and that just wasn't doing it for me.

BUT, I think I've found the metaphor that will work for me.

Law school is like making a patch-work quilt. I've been given four bolts of cloth so far: Civil Procedure, Torts, Contracts & Legal Research and Writing. I am in the process of cutting these materials up into smaller pieces that can fit together to make a pattern. Then sometime next semester I will actually reach the point where I can sew the pieces together with some sort of certainty. After three years, I will have an entire quilt.

Now there might be some weak spots where my stitches aren't as strong and sure as they should be, but that's what continuing legal education is for! Furthermore as the law changes I will have to patch up the quilt.

Anyways, that's my happy metaphor to help me get some perspective on this situation.Peace Out!

Law School: A Bad Beginning

Well, no, not really a bad beginning, but I just felt like mooching off of Lemony Snickett today.

So this is kind of a multi-post in that I honestly don't have the time to be doing this, but I live to procrastinate as many of my good friends know. So I will come back and edit and clean this up, but it may take awhile for me to get to it.

August 20, 2006: So, Ive completed my week of orientation at Oklahoma City University School of Law, and now, I am finally starting to feel the terror that is usually associated with a leap of faith. I entered the week feeling some trepidation, but not too much considering Ive just moved 400 miles and the closest friends and family, geographically speaking, are three hours away in the DFW metroplex.

On the first day of orientation I am having no problems- they are throwing a cartload of information at us, but I definitely feel that I am coping with it just fine. Of course, day 1 is administrative details and not LAW SCHOOL. The second day is a brief introduction to the faculty so that we may be suitably impressed by their credentials. We also take an oath of profession responsibility and then we watch film clips and have a focus-group styled discussion, that is if you can have a focus group of 250 people, regarding ethics. Then we heard about the joys of being a lawyer from Prof. William Conger. To sum up his speech, it is a lawyers responsibility to be a compassionate counselor without cynicism. If you succumb to the cynicism that you can get through this profession compassion and counsel become meaningless. I mean this makes a lot of sense especially when you hear the whole presentation and not yours trulys two sentence synopsis. ***

Alright...so I read all the stuff I had intended to post, but it is boring and would only interest a couple of you guys...if you want a list of all the cases I've had to read to date, I will be happy to provide it via email. Then all the other stuff is just waxing enthusiastic about my professors, because I really, really like ALL of my professors. They are a wonderful group of people who say things like "your case sucks pondwater" and "you are in a perfect state of ignorance" and wonderful things like that (at least it's wonderful when you have the context, when you just have the words it can seem a little harsh).

So I'll leave that stuff off of my blog for now, but it may be added at a later date!

Cheerio Darlings!