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Monday, August 18, 2003
I have so much to tell you all!
Today was orientation at my law school. I have been nervous and antsy for days now, worried that I made a foolish decision and that I was about to learn how wrong I was. I haven't been sleeping well, and I've dreamt that I was back in high school three times in the past week. Believe me, there are few subconscious punishments worse than three nights of high school dreams.
Today, though, that is all behind me. I'm sure I'll question my decision-making skills many times in the upcoming months, but at least I can base it on something solid, rather than a vague idea of what law school really is. We started, finally.
The day started with talk, talk, and more talk. Not surprisingly, perhaps, my law professors are far more talkative than my engineering professors were. Fortunately, they are also somewhat more eloquent. A few interesting things I learned about my classmates: The age range is 19-51, with 24 being the median (yay, I'm not THAT far off the median). They are 52% female, 48% male (weird to be in the majority for once). 30% have advanced degrees (yay, I'm not the only one who is a grad school junkie). The vast majority, perhaps 25%, were political science undergrads. The percentage of engineering degrees was pretty small, maybe 1% or 2%, but I'm not the only one.
In fact, I know for sure I'm not the only one. Perhaps the small section assignments (our Legal Writing and Research sections) are not just random, but I unexpectedly found another software engineer, an Indian woman who has been a programmer for years. We talked Java, C, and C++ together, including my passionate dislike of the latter. We probably know the same people. She went to law school for much the same reasons as I did, and I am absolutely delighted that I met her.
In the gratuitous ego-stroking category, I was pleasantly pleased and surprised by the number of people who asked me what my undergrad school was as though I had just graduated the previous year, and had the decency to at least pretend they were surprised when I said I had graduated several years previously.
And finally, I have homework! I feel like a runner who has finally heard the starting gun. I'm not dancing around the start line any more. I've begun the race.
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I have so much to tell you all!
Today was orientation at my law school. I have been nervous and antsy for days now, worried that I made a foolish decision and that I was about to learn how wrong I was. I haven't been sleeping well, and I've dreamt that I was back in high school three times in the past week. Believe me, there are few subconscious punishments worse than three nights of high school dreams.
Today, though, that is all behind me. I'm sure I'll question my decision-making skills many times in the upcoming months, but at least I can base it on something solid, rather than a vague idea of what law school really is. We started, finally.
The day started with talk, talk, and more talk. Not surprisingly, perhaps, my law professors are far more talkative than my engineering professors were. Fortunately, they are also somewhat more eloquent. A few interesting things I learned about my classmates: The age range is 19-51, with 24 being the median (yay, I'm not THAT far off the median). They are 52% female, 48% male (weird to be in the majority for once). 30% have advanced degrees (yay, I'm not the only one who is a grad school junkie). The vast majority, perhaps 25%, were political science undergrads. The percentage of engineering degrees was pretty small, maybe 1% or 2%, but I'm not the only one.
In fact, I know for sure I'm not the only one. Perhaps the small section assignments (our Legal Writing and Research sections) are not just random, but I unexpectedly found another software engineer, an Indian woman who has been a programmer for years. We talked Java, C, and C++ together, including my passionate dislike of the latter. We probably know the same people. She went to law school for much the same reasons as I did, and I am absolutely delighted that I met her.
In the gratuitous ego-stroking category, I was pleasantly pleased and surprised by the number of people who asked me what my undergrad school was as though I had just graduated the previous year, and had the decency to at least pretend they were surprised when I said I had graduated several years previously.
And finally, I have homework! I feel like a runner who has finally heard the starting gun. I'm not dancing around the start line any more. I've begun the race.
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