Meathook Reality

For the second time this week, I’ve found myself setting down my books and thinking “Ok, nothing more to do.” before 3:30pm. Am I getting senioritis already? Even according to the outline that Professor Contracts helped us put together, we’ve not learned a whole lot. It makes me ask why things are taking so long. It also worries me: after all the buildup about how incredibly mind-pummeling law school supposedly is, either I’m doing just fine because I’m exceptionally gifted, or I’m not only not doing just fine, but I’m doing so badly that I cannot recognize the danger signs.


In other news, I attended a meeting of PILF, the Public Interest Law Forum (mainly because they had free pizza). It looks pretty interesting, in that they raise money to pay for people doing public interest law internships with their summers, as well as for people to repay their loans, should they graduate and pursue public interest law. I honestly don’t mind that the main topic of conversation was swapping greatful dead songs, and there was only one pepperoni pizza. I do mind that the president of the group seemed to indicate that patent law had nothing to do with the public interest. It has everything to do with the public interest, in that it’s aim is to provide a method to make sure that people have reason to innovate, by allowing them a temporary monopoly on their creations such that they can recoup their initial investment before the rest of the world takes advantage of their research to compete. It’s not MY fault that the system is screwed up and has a bad rep.