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Saturday, February 25, 2006

 

When someone asks me if I'm enjoying law school...

I'll probably have blocked this out, and I'll say I like it. I'm pretty miserable right now, working on this memo. Trying to research, understand, and write about issues that I had previously known nothing about sounds intersting and fun at first. But combine that with a word limit, a time limit, a limit on the professor's office hours, a ban on using Westlaw and Lexis to research, and the fact that I was sick this week, it becomes painful and stressful.

I have this feeling that I'm just not quite getting things right---that the rules I'm coming up with are wrong, that I don't have the best cases, and that my organization isn't clear. My professor reassured me that I'll do fine, and that I should listen to my instincts. But what if my instincts tell me that I'm doing it wrong?

In the grand scheme of things, this is one assignment for one class during one semester of one year of law school. Ultimately, a small thing. But I want to do things right, so I have to remain short sighted, at least for now.

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