Friday, November 2, 2012

Law School and such.

Well friends, it has been a while since I have posted anything, and I am sure you area all bursting with impatience to know what is going on in my life... (**crickets chirping).
Law School. That is what is going on. Basically all that is going on. If you don't care about law school, stop reading now, because I have nothing more to offer. Anyway, Law School at J. Reuben Clark is good times. Granted, it's a lot of work, and I find myself reading and going to class and then reading some more, but it is interesting stuff. My classes as a first year are Torts, Contracts, Property, and Research and Writing. I also have 'professional seminars' where once a week a lawyer or a judge or someone will come and tell us about the world. I like these spiels, and most recently there was a pair of attorney's who thought that, it their law careers were to fail, then they could make it in the world of stand up comedy. Sadly, I thought they were hilarious. It was all law jokes, so I won't burden you, but trust me, they were funny guys.
In any event, for the first time in my life (except for when I'm around politicchic) I am around people who want to talk as much or more than I do. It is weird to be the stoic one in the group often times. Frankly, law students are annoying. I am one, and so yes, I am also obnoxious, as I'm sure you may have heard from the aforementioned politicchic. All that aside, there are a few good peeps here, and there are a few that I would rather not have to listen too. There are two people in particular who I consider 1) Arch Rival, and 2) Nemesis. The former is a woman, who I shall code name Cheshire from here forward (because she grins like a psycho) and the latter I shall code name Woody (because he is reminiscent of a woodchuck). Just to be clear
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And so, reasons that I dislike this folks is because they are those law students who try to comment ALWAYS about EVERYTHING. This includes (in fact, seems to require) times when they haven't fully formed what they wish to say and so the class is treated to an intimate view into the inner working of their thought processes. It depresses me to waste my time writing about these people, so I will stop.

Lets see. Torts, I like reading the cases, class is somewhat boring. I like our Professor, she is a genius... BUT, her voice makes me want to open my veins. She has a high, breaky voice, and she tries to project to the back of the class. Since I sit in the very front in that class, I often feel as though little sharp hammers are stabbing my eardrums. But alas, at least it forces me to pay attention.

Property, I started out loving this class, now not as much. I like property and have strong feelings about it, but our law is grounded in all of these ancient feudalistic ideas that we inherited from Mother England, and so there is a lot of areas where the old system clashes with new practicality, and it is complicated. The worst part is, you still need to know the old system rules because property has the annoying tendency to stick around for a long time and old deeds and whatnot are still valid. Also, our professor is brand new and it kills me to be a Guinea pig. He is still ironing out time management and all that, and we suffer as a result.

Contracts is much like a game with complicated rules that I don't know. It is a bummer now, but as one masters the rules, it makes sense. It is steadily getting better, and at least our professor is highly entertaining, since this is a class that might have been REALLY painful with a boring professor.

And research and writing. This class will give me an ulcer. I don't want to write more about it, since this class has already caused me to write a lot.

Apart from classes, life is pretty good here at good ol' J. Reuben Clark Law School. There are clubs that I enjoy, one of which is sending me to Denver for giggles. That is the Energy, Environment, and Resource Student Association. I also helped out with the Law and Region Symposium which took place about a month ago. I even met the Chief Justice for the Supreme Court of Peru accidentally, which was a perk. All in all, Law School is hard, but good times.