I'm reading a book on 1L right now called "How to Study Law and Take Law Exams" by Burkhart and Stein. It tells you about what to expect and how to maximize your time. I'm scared. It's a lot of technical reading. The Socratic Method doesn't help. But I think it will be okay. Thousands of people have done it before us and survived. IMO I think the people who can't handle it, don't take it seriously.
Actually, I think its the opposite. In my experience, the people who can't handle it are the ones who take it TOO seriously and obsess about it all the time. Who cares if you get stumped in class? You're not supposed to have all the answers, you're a student after all. Just relax and enjoy life man; at no time during a job interview in the future is an interviewer going to say: "BTW, Mr. Smokey, is it not true that four years ago in first-year Contracts class, you totally mixed up the Statute of Frauds and the Parol Evidence rule? Wow! You must be a total moron, no job for you!"
that's classic! i had a friend who when he got his contract final back the professor wrote: "You have misstated the UCC, common law and the Restatement consistently. Where were you while I was teaching this class?" dude, that's just funny!
I never really had a lot of doubt since I made my decision to go to law school. In regards to the public speaking, I taught a section of Intro to Political Science in front of hundreds and just LOVED to play Devil's Advocate when it came to Constitutional questions. Doing that again sounds like a blast to me. Thanks for the advise guys, you did mark this as billable right?
Ha! I'm sure your day is filled with much more salacious undertakings than just discovery and pleadings. When my eyes were glazed over after hours of summarizing depo's, it sometimes got to the point that I would have rather been reading the dicta from International Shoe rather than continue with such monotony. Plus, you get billables.
Overall, my law school experience was good. I do have one negative story about the first year. In the first semester of our research and writing class, we did not have access to computer research; our research had to be done by book. One exercise required us to Shepardize a case by hand. Apparently, some idiot decided to tear out the pages necessary for the research from the Shepards in the library. There was a big uproar about it and it didn't happen again.
