November 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm
I took the MPRE yesterday (pronounced “um-pree”). I believe “MPRE” stands for “Model Professional Rules of Ethics Exam” even though it’s short an “E.” Then again, the “R” might somehow stand for “Reasonable” since that word is super important to lawyers. For example, lawyers can be sued for malpractice if they are not careful advocates […]
October 19, 2011 at 1:28 am
When I reached the summit of Mt. Greylock last weekend, during a trip with the Boston University Outing Club, I couldn’t have been happier to find this engraving by Henry David Thoreau. Like HDT, who is probably best known for his retreat to Walden Pond, I periodically find myself drawn—with an almost gravitational force—back to […]
October 14, 2011 at 7:12 pm
According to Wikipedia (gotta love the credibility of that phrase) Convergence theory holds that crowd behavior is not a product of the crowd itself, but is carried into the crowd by particular individuals. Thus, crowds amount to a convergence of like-minded individuals. For me law school is a perfect symbol of this. One of the […]
October 13, 2011 at 1:58 am
My thirties are for exhaustion and preparation. I’d like to start getting sleep in my forties, but we’ll see. Much of the exhaustion is like soreness the day after a good workout, where the aches remind you that you’ve done something worthwhile. At last, I will have a JD after these three years. But then […]
September 22, 2011 at 1:31 am
You may have heard the saying about law school. 1L year they scare you to death. 2L year they work you to death. 3L year they bore you to death. I agree with the first two statements, but I am definitely not bored yet and don’t foresee boredom anytime in the near future. Instead, I […]
September 18, 2011 at 10:50 am
Its that time again. Law school has begun. The 1Ls are dazed, confused or ridiculously optimistic as the year is just kicking into gear (much like we were). The 2ls are busy, stressed, inspired, jaded, and praying to be a 3L. The 3Ls are in a word or words to be more accurate OVER IT! […]
September 16, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Toward the end of the first class of Legal Ethics with Professor Knight, we each had to finish this sentence for ourselves: I expect to be satisfied professionally, in my work as an attorney, when… “I hope I’m not satisfied too easily, because feeling unsatisfied keeps me motivated. (I know, that doesn’t complete the sentence […]
August 1, 2011 at 3:20 pm
August, already?! Summer is wrapping up, my judicial externship ends this week, and I will soon make my way back to the East Coast. This summer began in a whirlwind — finishing finals and writing competition, moving to Chicago, and starting a new job. Just like that: 1L ride was over, a new eL ride […]
July 31, 2011 at 10:34 pm
After spending three years of law school and seven years at BU (over a quarter of my life!), I’m happy to say that it has all finally come to an end. This past week I took the New York and Massachusetts bar exams. My classmates and I spent the entire summer after graduation studying for […]
July 12, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Last semester, Professor Bridges published Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. In a visit to her office hours, I learned from her that the book examines racism as a systemic production of predetermined life choices, and her analysis is at the institutional level, yet discrete acts of resistance are also […]
