Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Potluck!That WAS going to be the title of today's post, since that is what I'm doing tonight. But unfortunately for little ol' me, somehow blogger managed to DELETE the entire post before I posted it. I am unimpressed. And now, I am not feeling nearly as witty as I was about 15 minutes ago when I started that post. So now you are all stuck with un-witty Courtney.
Tonight I feast at Lee-Ann's with the girls. That's right - Girl's Night IN! There will be food. There will be drinks. There will be much merriment. And... there will be complaining and gossip.
That's exactly what happens when 8 law school girls get together for an evening together. The conversation inevitably turns to the internal politics and inner workings of the school and what happens behind its brick walls. Sure, every law school holds itself out to be an institution of higher learning, but any truthful and honest law student will admit that law school is really just a repeat of high school. The same drama from high school persists in law school, but in a more clever way (since it IS law school).
My law school has about 480 students in total. Smaller than the majority of high schools. In first year, students are put into small groups and have all of their classes in that group of 20, and are also in larger groups mixed with other small groups. So, everyone pretty much knows everyone else. We even get lockers, and the "first years" have to share, just like the grade 9s, or freshman, as they call it in the States.
Within the first couple of weeks of school, students tend to set themselves up with the reputation they will have for the next three years. I'm not really sure what mine is.... blonde, married and hyper probably. Married is important, because that means I'm off limits to guys, not looking for a boyfriend, but also safe for guys to talk to (because I won't automatically think that they want to makeout with me and I won't want to makeout with them).
Coming to law school "single" or "taken" also carries importance. Remember, most of these people have already completed 4 years of an undergraduate degree, after their high school diplomas. Some people have worked for several years and then go on to law school. In the minds of many, the three years of law school may be the last chance at finding a "life-partner". Apparently, it is a lot harder to find a boyfriend/girlfriend out there in the "career world". So it is not uncommon to see hook-ups between law students. I, myself, feel quite fortunate to have come to school with a fiance, because in my humble opinion, law school has pretty slim pickings. Nice people, smart people, fun people, but finding a man that I would want to spend the rest of my life with at this place would NOT have been an easy task. But I'm talking about for myself... many people have found love at school, and it is so sweet and nice to watch the relationships bloom. Then the couple becomes what is known as a "law school power couple". Whatever that means.
So, as you can see, the study of law involves prima facie (latin for: on its face) many things: Reading. Studying. Researching. Writing. But behind that facade, there is an entirely different dimension.
And in closing. The title of the post was really quite deceiving, wasn't it - because this post wasn't really about the potluck at all. Was it?
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