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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

First Post

I'm setting up this blog as a way to record my thoughts on law school. I intended to start it a lot earlier--in fact, I registered the site almost a year ago--but the rigors of my first year made it difficult, and I was reluctant to begin midway through the first semester. This just ended up making things worse, but at any rate, here begins the blog, about a month before the beginning of fall term of my 2L year. I hope that as I go along, I can go beyond the autobiographical and write more about issues and topics that interest me and arise in class or news. Upcoming thoughts/events for the next couple of weeks:

OCI Selections are revealed on Tuesday August 12. I applied for an interview with about 25 firms, including the 11 "big" firms in town. I hope to get a good number of interviews as I feel like my record is good, and my resume is well put together, but my weakness has always been my cover letters.

Class selection: At the moment, I'm registered for Tax, Employment Law, Negotiations and B.A./Corps. On top of that, of course, I have my research position with Provost Sullivan and Prof. Clary, the staff position on the Minnesota Journal of International Law and then the role as a Supplemental Instructor for Prof. Nussbaumer's Civil Procedure class. That puts me at seventeen credits plus the research position (and journal), which is going to be tough. I'm considering dropping a class, but I'm undecided. The most likely class is employment law, but dropping that would put me very much on the transactional side of things for the fall despite my Civ Pro SSG position, which, while I'm uncertain which side of the line I want to explore more, I don't necessarily want that appearance on my transcript as I apply for jobs.

Research: At the moment I'm working on the edits that Professor Clary gave me for the two sections that I've written already, and once those are done, I'll be looking for case law and state bar association opinions on metadata.

Journal: I'm still undecided and basically completely lost as to what topic on which to write my journal article. We shall see what comes of orientation and whatever other direction I might get, but I feel that it is important for me to figure out something to begin my research as soon as possible.

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