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| The open memo is done (wow, completely finished with my first law school course!!), I have two weeks until exams... and as scary as that seems, I'm still not stressed out. I'm in no way confident about how much I know at this point.. I definitely have a LOT of reviewing to do, but there's comfort knowing that my whole life... my WHOLE life is in God's hands, and no matter what happens, God has a reason for it. Now that I have to start thinking about where I'll end up this summer, and what I'll be doing. It's pretty cool to think that I could end up anywhere this summer, but wherever it is, I hope that I'll be productive, and really contributing something, whether it's doing IP work, or public interest, or working for the government, putting whatever skills God gave me to use will be exciting. As a student, I don't feel like I'm really doing much except studying, so I'm kind of itching to get out there and have some impact in the workplace, but I'm trying to keep in mind that God has a purpose for me while I am a student, and even if I don't feel like I'm contributing anything right now, I guess I just need to have faith that God is using me while I'm here.
I'm so blessed to be here. Seriously, anytime I feel myself getting remotely close to getting stressed, I just have to remind myself that I am SO incredibly blessed to be in law school. My naive freshman self back in 2005 never would have dreamed that I would end up here. So thankful every day to be here. No reason to complain about any amount of studying or work I have to do before the semester ends. I should be absolutely grateful for this work.
Thankfulness in all circumstances.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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| HA! They warned us that WestLaw and LexisNexus won't be free anymore once we start our legal careers... but who needs them when you have THIS: http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search
I searched one of the cases I looked at for my open memo and I found it on google scholar advanced... complete... and FREE... and FAST. Sayonaraaa standard legal databases. I used to only use google scholar for science research, so glad to know they have court opinions and legal articles!!
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| I know I should be working on my memo right now, but it's just so difficult for me to focus right now. I'm distracted... but a good distracted I guess. The past few weeks have been pretty interesting...
Even though law school is supposed to be super stressful, I'm finding that I'm actually a lot less stressed than I was in undergrad. Maybe it's because exams feel so far (though they are coming up fast!), and I'm just slowly getting through each day's work. Also, the learning is different. I'm not struggling to understand concepts, but trying to figure out how to cram all this information into my head. Studying chem was harder because a lot of the material was just difficult to understand. Law isn't difficult as far as comprehension, but there's just so much of it, it can get easy to get lost in the details, or, to use a common law school cliche, it's easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. Man, I really should get on outlining, but it's hard to find time with this memo.
Which I should get back to... now. More thoughts later.
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| there's a reason I'm here, there's a reason I'm in law school...
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