Eh, so it’s the first day of my last semester and despite the fact that I really enjoy being a law student - because let’s face it, it’s not a difficult life overall once you get the hang of things, I have already found more than a handful of things to complain about. I’ve found a lot of things to complain about recently despite the fact that life is going pretty well overall and so perhaps it’s just that law student types find things to complain about out of habit. Anyway, to spare my friends and family from my grief, I’ll try my best to limit my insights to this blog. Hopefully it’ll be a little funny, as law student often are.
First of all, parking. This is actually a complaint from yesterday when school was not yet in session and still the parking lot by the law school was full. What gives? How is there supposed to be parking for students during the semester when there isn’t any on a holiday? I got to school this morning at 8:00 AM for a morning class (guess I have to start preparing for professional life) and a big sign greets me welcoming some convention-goers basically for the month of January. Our school seems to perpetually host conventions that sap our parking - why don’t we just make a new structure for the convention-goers to park in?
Second, the bench-standers. I’ve noticed this before, but for some reason it stood out today: people, usually guys, stand on top of the benches in front of the law school when talking in a group, usually holding an apple, coffee, or juicy juice. Who do these guys think they are? It’s like they are sub-consciously (or not) projecting their superiority onto the rest of us. It looks really bad, like they are talking down to their friends and colleagues. I’m not sure why anyone would do that and well, early in the morning it sort of struck a nerve.
Third, the sage-nodders. In one of my classes today, the professor basically gave his background and also talked about a speaker series he was hosting and in particular pointed out one speaker and asked if anyone in the class knew who he was. Out of 20 or so students, about 5 hands shot straight up and another dozen or so heads nodded sagely as if they were old friends with the bloke and moreover, had had in-depth discussion about him recently. The guy was no doubt a well-known specialist, but no way did all those student know who he was. I googled him since I was so shocked I had never heard of him and sure enough, the first two names to come up are not even the guy in question. Not even the most famous guy with that name. I absolutely have done this head-nodding thing myself in the past, pretending to have camaraderie with a professor, but it was annoying as hell to look around the room and see it in action.
Okay, this post is about to get annoying long itself. I’ve got to figure out my schedule anyway before the registrar closes. That’ll probably be my next post. Oh…no, no. It’ll be the bookstore.
-jd
