Socrates, squared.

I think I've officially passed the "you're not going to fail out/have a nervous breakdown in the first week" test, which is a big relief. What my grades will be remains to be seen of course (and my awesome 2L mentor has suggested some study tips which I plan to spend the weekend implementing), but I've gotten over the hump of learning how to brief a case and answer the Socratic method-type questions. In fact, I got called on not once, but twice this week in two separate classes!! What that means is basically the professor randomly chooses a student to talk about a certain case, and then comes back to that student again and again with questions about the facts, hypothetical scenarios and analyses. In my case (both times!) we pretty much only covered one case in the class, which meant I spent an hour plus on call and answering questions both today and yesterday. The chances of randomly getting chosen are only 1/90, so I really didn't count on it happening twice within two weeks, but it was honestly nice to get it over with (and kind of exhilarating!). Now I know I can do it! And I know I probably won't get called on again in those two classes! It takes a lot of pressure off.

Still, there are grades to think about (based on exams mainly), homework, student groups (I've already joined three, I know it's a bit much!) and of course the utterly important social life. Tonight I actually dragged my antisocial self to a party of the first year class, only to have it broken up by the POLICE within an hour! Imagine the scene: 100 law students, five cops and a keg. I don't think I need say any more.

So, I'm a bit busy and my studio is a bit messy, but it's the weekend! The perfect time to rectify that and also get my self organized so NEXT time I get called on I'll have an even better answer!