The Spring 2010 semester is just one week old and I am already dead tired. Luckily it’s not because of school work but because I just got back from skiing this weekend. Every year the law school organizes a weekend ski trip for students over Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend to Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine. Sugarloaf is about 5 hours away from Boston. Students can rent cabins/condos for anywhere from 4 to 14 people and the event is a great time. I hadn’t skiied in a long time and it was nice to finally do it again.
An added bonus for going on the ski trip was that I was able to celebrate completing the second draft of my journal note. It was due on the day we left for Sugarloaf and I managed to finish it. What a relief it was once all 37 pages were done! The only bad thing about it is that the editors will be providing extensive feedback, which means that I’ll probably have much more work to do on it later!
This semester’s classes look promising: Introduction to Federal Income Taxation (Tax); Evidence; Insurance Law; Financial Reporting for Lawyers. People say that you’ll either love tax class or hate it…after three classes, I’m enjoying it a lot, but perhaps this will change? Financial Reporting for Lawyers is exactly what it means. It’s pretty much a basic accounting class for law students to understand how to read various corporate financial statements. I thought it would be useful to take to be able to understand what is going on in corporate law cases.
Insurance Law promises to be the most interesting. An overview of cases suggests that there will be some very interesting scenarios, such as situations where people go to great lengths to cash in on their life/casualty insurance. We were told that after taking this course our lives would be ruined because we would look at everything as a risk. That’s a risk that I’m willing to take (I couldn’t risk). Stay tuned later for thoughts on the NFL playoffs, bizarre insurance cases and more.
