Meathook Reality

It begins, not with a bang, but with a donut. This morning’s breakfast came to me courtesey of LexusNexus, or Westlaw. The library people mentioned that one of them sponsored today’s breakfast, and the other sponsored tomorrow’s. The coffee was ok. From there, we picked up a packet containing our schedules, a pile of forms, and the ever-present bookmark from the people who manage the school loans. I now have 5 of them. We also had to pick up, and sign for, a copy of the school’s handbook. We then had to sign a paper saying that we agreed to everything within it. To be fair, they were willing to take our signature today, but would give us some time to actually read it before they demanded such things.

The day wasn’t so bad: I had expected much more disorganization. It came down to a lot of explaining that law school is not like our undergrad experience, and that we would have to work. Also, there is usually no real answer, and the journey is the reason we are there.

I look forward a little bit to tomorrow – I think things will settle down. I look forward quite a bit more to Monday, when classes formally start, and they stop packing 300+ of us intotheir largest classrooms.