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Cases are boring. I am however reading a case about River Phoenix’s death and the insurance policy problems that followed. At least this is a little better.
I was caught completely off guard in Contracts today. I was sleepy because it is Monday and I’m still readjusting to the weekday sleeping schedule. On top of that, we were discussing reading that was suppose to be discussed last week on Tuesday. Our Thursday class was canceled and I did not look over this case again. It didn’t help that I was the first person called on. The only thing that made me feel better was he called on Philip, the guy sitting next to me and he too did not remember a lot about the case.
It is week 2 and I’m already tired of reading torts. Torts seems to have an abundance of cases with only partial important content. At the same time the professor is soft spoken and does not put the fear in me like my Civil Procedure professor does. Contracts for me right now seems the best. He uses a casefile method. We are given a main case followed by some related cases. We read the related cases to help argue the main case. I find this to be the most interesting. Civil Procedure seems to be more concerned with the rule. I am however enjoying some random free lunches from assorted organizations that hold lunch meetings. We don’t get lunch everyday, but I’ve gotten 3 meals so far.
Day one wasn’t all that exciting. By now people have told you all about law school and the new method of teaching. My Contracts teacher Chandler seemed a little more laid back and though he did question us, he did it in a normal talkative manner. My Civil Procedures teacher, Crump, was totally the evil law school teacher people talk about. I don’t mean he’s an evil person, but he is the type of person who makes people nervous. A student able to answer a question in Contracts may be too startled to answer a question in Civil Procedure. CivPro also has us sitting in alphabetical order. It isn’t too bad and he goes in a certain order so you know when you are about to be called upon. I spent the time in between my classes and just eating a sandwich for lunch. I got a lot done during my break and I even spent a little time after classes to stay on campus and read some more. Traffic isn’t too bad going either way. The normal delays occur where the traffic merges or splits onto different highways. It’s slow, but I still get to and from school in about fifteen minutes. Parking wasn’t an issue for me when I got there and when I left there were still plenty of spots around were I park. I hope day 2 goes as well. I have the same classes tomorrow plus my legal writing and research class.
