Today was Day 1 of IU Law orientation. So far, so good. Most of the people I met today are really cool. We’ll see what happens when we’re all subjected to assloads of stress and reading, but for now it’s all good. I’m sure I’ll have more to say at a later date, but here’s the deal so far.
A lot (most?) law schools split 1L into a small number of sections and they have all the same classes in the section. The other sections have all different classes. IU splits us up into a ton of small (peer groups, hereinafter ‘PGA groups’) and a handful of the PGA groups have the exact same schedule, while others differ slightly and some are totally different. In other words, there is a core group of people that you have ALL of your classes with, but the other half of every class is different people. That provides the benefit of a) keeping you with a group of people to study with and b) Letting you have class with a larger number of the folks in your class to keep from the huge segregation that goes on at some schools. They didn’t tell us all this, that’s just my take.
From what I’m hearing, I have about the best prof. line-up possible. That’s what the 2Ls and 3Ls tell me. My LRW prof is allegedly a tough one, but she’s also allegedly amazing… and the course is pass/fail, so who cares? Two of my four professors don’t cold-call and while I guess that’s a good thing, I’m not going to lie: I’m sort of looking forward to the cold-calling. A lot the same way I was looking forward to the LSAT.
Mainly because I’m a glutton.
I get to buy my books tomorrow. I’m pretty sure that’s going to run in the range of $700.
There’s another Peter. He’s cool, but we’re totally different. I met a guy whose girlfriend is a ‘Bama alumna. My PGA group is pretty cool, and our PGA (the advisor to the PGA group) is a really awesome 2L.
All in all, it’s still the honeymoon phase, but I’m enjoying it.
Our first class rumor is that the reason the school isn’t serving us alcohol at orientation functions is because we have a 20 year-old in the class. I’ve appointed myself chair of the “Getting whoever the hell that is completely lit on their 21st birthday” committee.
Tomorrow… I finish orientation and start on the reading for Wednesday. And I get high-speed internet. But will still not be on the ‘net from school, so I’ll be sparse.
Today was a long day, so I’m going to bed.
“And I get high-speed internet. But will still not be on the ‘net from school, so I’ll be sparse.”
Yeah…that’ll last!
I’m with Matt. As of this week, the lappy is always connected in the library.
That last part, about the 20-year-old, seems kind of like the start to a bad teeny-bopper flick. Pete meets (20-year-old) girl. Pete makes bet with jerk friends that he can get her “completely lit” on her 21st birthday. Pete falls in love. On the night of her birthday, girl finds out about bet, cries a river. Pete professes his love. Girl forgives Pete. The end.
Sorry. It’s really early.
You forgot the part about how she finds out about the bet from pete’s blog because he forgot to make it a private post.
Matt: it’ll definitely last until I get a laptop. Kinda hard to be on the internet in class w/o one of those.
Morgan: Gag me. It’s probably a guy anyhow.
Eric: I think that’s how a lot of things are going to go this year.
Morgan, I think you should cast Kerr Smith as Pete in this teen melodrama. What do you think?
The Character of Pete in a teen melodrama? This I gotta watch!
Pete, you shouldn’t have moved…. The Graham Colton Band is playing the back to school concert Saturday. You’re missing out
Eric: Perfect! Can’t believe I missed that! I must’ve been really out of it this morning anyhow; I forgot I’d posted all together.
TSCGirl: Is Kerr Smith the guy (”Jack”) from Dawson’s Creek? If so, we need someone more abrasive. Hahhaha. Sounds like a great poll opportunity, though.
More abrasive, hmmm I’ll have to think on that one.
What’s cold-calling? Sounds frightening.
It’s when the prof picks a person at random to answer a question. Sounds easy, but it can be torture.
OK, I;ver been thinking, more abrasive than “Jack” from Dawson’s Creek …..
Well at first I thought about Cole Hauser, but then decided he might not be abrasive enough. Then I considered Jake Gyllenhaal b/c he can be pretty abrasive, but his weirdness beats his abrasiveness. Pete might be weird, but he’s kooky and cynical weird, not creepy perverse weird so that was out. Finally I settled on another WB network veteran, Jason Behr. You can check them all out on IMDB if you like.
Morgan, your thoughts?