Our Little Law School Family

In law school, the 1L class is divided into sections. We had four full time sections, and one part time section. Our full time sections had about 90 people in them. Since you take pretty much all your classes with your section, they're usually the people you know best in law school. Sometimes one of your classes will be a "split" where it is half of the section and that's usually nicer.

And finally within that, you have your legal writing & rhetoric class that you stay with all year long. Although ours was on the larger end, these 20 people from your section who are for the most part, the people I know best in my section. Being in a small class really helps getting to know one another (for usually better, and sometimes worse), and you bond by going through one of the most work-intensive-for-least-amount-of-credit classes together. You know all those memos and brief law students are always working on? Yeah, this class.

That would have been easier to explain with a bracket or chart, but yeah, my technological capabilities are lacking. Point is, legal writing & rhetoric class is like your little family because you take all your classes with these people. And while I was extrodinarily happy to turn in my final trial brief, a little part of me was sad because I won't be seeing these people in our little class anymore. Won't have the same dynamic interactions between people anymore. Won't be sharing the same inside jokes anymore. Won't be having any bbq's to celebrate the completion of briefs anymore.

And it's the same as when you finish any little class together. You'll continue to remain friends with some people, but most people are going to be the ones you say hi to in the hallway and nothing else. But that's how it goes and I don't mind. My legal writing & rhetoric class was like the little family that helped me through my first year and it made things a lot more entertaining, and I'm glad for that.

[PS. My poor writing in this entry is not reflective of my writing class. In fact, I think it's so rambling today because my brain is so dead from reading over my draft a milliion times before turning it in.]