Hello again...

Don’t worry. I am still alive! I have received some frantic voice mails over the past few days from people concerned about the lack of updates on the blog. Rest assured that I am still here in Chicago, plugging away at law school, and eagerly awaiting my vacation over the holidays.

The sheer amount of work that has piled up over the last month is daunting. In addition to the normal reading assignments, the time came for me to compile everything into outline form for more efficient studying. This took quite a bit of work. To give you some perspective, my complete notes set for Constitutional Process alone was 175 pages! I was able to pare this down to a more manageable 75 pages. Now, multiply that by 4 classes and you get some idea of what I (and every law student) am up to this time of the year. People are starting to panic a bit, but I know that the next few weeks will be the real crucible. I am taking heart in the knowledge that the end of the first semester is in sight. I have almost made it through my first phase of law school, and it feels pretty good.

Of course, before I get there I have to contend with exams. For each class there is one exam, and this determines your grade for the entire class. Period. No other grades, just one exam. No pressure there, huh? When you factor in that I have not taken an exam in just over 10 years, this does seem to be an almost heart attack-inducing handicap. For some reason, I am not worried. I have between 2 and 3 days between exams to cram, and I think that I can do it. I have kept up with the reading all semester, so there should not be any surprises as far as that is concerned, and I have plenty of practice problems to work on so that I can test my grasp of the materials.

It is hard to believe that 3 months has gone by. I just hope that the rest of law school goes by as quickly. Of course, then it will be time to study for the bar exam (ugh), but so far, so good. I just hope that I will be able to keep up with the blog a little better next semester.

Thanks again to all of you for supporting me. It really means a lot.