classes

I know I promised an update during the long weekend, so here it finally is. Things have gotten jam-packed in the last few weeks, I think ever since November 1, when we were allowed to meet with the Career Services Center. Turns out that we should ahve all of our recruiting work done by the first week of December, to even give us 1Ls a tiny shot at working at a firm this summer.

My section also got slammed with two practice exams plus a paper, all in the week before the final research memos were due. Now that those are done, we have about three weeks left before our first finals period, which can make or break our law school careers.

One more thing, in the midst of the schoolwork was the class scheduling for the spring semester. At Cal, I scheduled classes via phone (TELE-BEARS...), then online, but there was nothing like the lottery system like we have here. Basically, 1Ls were allocated 700 points to bid on classes, with upperclassmen receiving more points (I think 2Ls got over 2000). You research classes and professros, bid your points online, and wait for the bidding period to end to see what you got stuck with.

I don't think I ever gave a run-down on what I'm taking but here's my schedule for this semester, including the professors:

Contracts, Wickelgren
Torts, Speta
Civil Procedure, Redish
Criminal Law, Rubinotwitz
Communication and Legal Reasoning, Provensano

Here's what I'll be taking next semester:

Constitutional Law, Calabresi
Property, Priest
Business Associations, McChesney
Jurisprudence, D'Amato
Communication and Legal Reasoning, TBA

coming soon!

I know it's been a long long time since my last post, but I promise a much longer update during Thanksgiving weekend!

two months

It hit me last night that I'll be a student for the next three years. That's as long as I was at BUILD, and almost as long as I was in high school or college! I'll be celebrating my 30th birthday as a student! The student lifestyle is so different from what I've become accustomed to the last six years, and it's hard to believe that I'll spent the next three years reading, writing and studying.

In other news:
- Shake a fist! I spilled salad dressing on my MacBook, and it's gonna cost me $200 to fix it!
- No more Twinkies and Cupcakes for me

skills

I'm becoming very good at underlining.

thoughts

- I miss California.
- Pringles are way better than Lay's Stax
- I drafted an OK basketball team this year - once again I bank on Tim Duncan.
- Here is a site with the rare McDonald's Monopoly pieces.
- One midterm down, three more to go!
- I still need a costume!

true blue!

Jetblue comes to Chicago!

week recap

It's been an exciting week since I last posted:

- It snowed last Thursday!
- I got my new camera!
- I went to my first haunted house!
- I took my first spinning class!
- I ordered a cool calendar and some new t-shirts!
- I made sloppy joes and tater tots!
- I shared a car and bought a couch at IKEA!

Now I need to decide what to be for Halloween...

shopping

I love to shop. I no longer have to sit on a box at home, as last weekend I finally bought a set of chairs to go with my dining table. Here is what I have:

Four Polyside Chairs (one in each color)
Beeboard Desk - Large (in white)

Now I just need a sofa, television and television stand.

I also bought a new digital camera, a Casio Exilim EX-Z850.

In other news, my Dodgers got swept this weekend by the Mets, but the Bears stomped Oregon and jumped back into the top ten!

isfj

As part of our Successful Student Series for 1Ls, Northwestern has us all take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to see what type of studying, group work and career would suit us best. I ended up as an ISFJ:

Extraversion or Introversion
Sensing or Intuition
Thinking or Feeling
Judging or Perceiving

ISFJ
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.

Basically, I'm warm and fuzzy, and like to help people. I think they mentioned most lawyers are ESTJ:

ESTJ
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.

In other news:
Is Chicago coming up as a law town?

to the right

Last Friday, Northwestern invited all of its 1Ls (first year law students) to a Communications and Legal Reasoning class taught by none other than Justice Scalia, everyone's favorite humorous but conservative Supreme Court Justice. Luckily, a friend saved me a prime seat for the standing-room-only speech in Lincoln Hall (a random picture of the lecture hall). The event was awesome, with the Justice providing humorous advice on how to be a good lawyer and write clearly, and then opening it up for questions.