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I came home from my first week of law school and I must say that I'm completely spent. I feel like I've done more work in the past 4 days than I did in the past 4 years of college. It's funny how we want to cherish every moment of undergrad and most of us here just want to survive and would prefer for the time to fly by. Nonetheless, I've met some great people and find most of the material pretty interesting.

Anyway, here are some lessons from week 1 of law school:

-You can walk into a class thinking you understand everything and leave 2 hours later more confused than ever.
-It is entirely possible that it could take 3 hours to understand a 3 page case.
-Just because the professor calls on volunteers doesn't mean you have to raise your hand for every single question and give long rambling answers when called upon. No matter how nice you may be, the rest of your class will talk about you and roll their eyes when you speak.
-People will sue over anything. Ok, I didn't need to go to law school to figure that out but these crazy lawsuits do make for the more interesting reading material.
-You would think that someone who was a clerk for a Supreme Court Chief Justice would be a structered and meticulous professor. This is completely not true.
-On that note, law school profs are either totally anally retentively organized or completely unorganized.
-Everything is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
-Never try to debate a law school professor, you will lose (luckily I didn't learn this from personal experience).
-Project Runway is even more amazing when it's a study break from contracts.
-Everyone around you feels exactly the same as you. Commiserate with them and go hang out with them on Thursday nights at Bar Review. Off I go...