Today is the first day of May. Many people celebrate it as May Day. In fact, not many people outside of the legal community are aware that there is an official day of celebration for those in the United States on this day. President Eisenhower announced that the first of [...]
March 27, 2013 at 3:07 am
I apologize to my many devoted readers (Do I even have those?!) for my absence this semester. As you may or may not know, currently, I serve as the Co-President of the Public Interest Project (“PIP”). PIP takes a large amount of my energy, especially as we prepare for our biggest fundraiser, our 22nd Annual [...]
February 10, 2013 at 11:13 am
The first semester of law school has a huge learning curve. In September, you hit the ground running but you’re faking it. Everyone’s faking it. You just have to do your best to figure things out as they come, because each experience: first graded memo, first cold call, first exam, is a brand new one [...]
January 21, 2013 at 10:40 pm
Law school is certainly difficult and we students spend many hours in the tower studying, but at the same time, BU Law does a great job at incorporating a number of fun extracurricular activities into the academic calendar. The first of those events occurred this past weekend during the MLK weekend ski trip to Sugarloaf [...]
January 7, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Winter break is almost over. Students of all ages are heading back to school, and those who have had time off from their jobs now find themselves having to return to them. The holidays have come and gone and a new year has begun. Many memorable things have happened over these past two weeks. In [...]
December 15, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Holidays are wonderful things, especially for law students. Most of them offer us some much-needed time off, or at least another occasion to relax and celebrate. With the end of Hanukkah approaching, I’ve been thinking about how the meaning of certain holidays has changed for me since I came to [...]
December 13, 2012 at 11:35 am
Yesterday was our first ever law school exam. I actually had a pretty great day. I came out of the exam feeling ok, then had lunch at the BU pub with some classmates before going home. Around 7pm, Rob came to visit me all the way down from New Hampshire. (He is seriously the best.) [...]
December 1, 2012 at 2:27 pm
So you’re in a in a long term relationship: great! But all those scary ‘get prepared for law school’ books are telling you that you are definitely going to break up during law school: yikes! Well, I myself am in a long-term, and long distance, relationship in law school and I’m going to go ahead [...]
December 1, 2012 at 1:23 pm
With the last week of classes coming up, I can already feel the stress levels in the classroom increasing with each passing day. Without a doubt, each of us experiences stress in different ways at different times. Yet, no matter how stressed we become over time, we all will find our own ways of making [...]