Prepoceros

Another day, another eight or nine speakers to sit through. Same as yesterday, the organizers allotted way too much time for everything, apparently in an over-eager attempt to avoid the crunches of years past. The hour-long writing assessment, for example, was scheduled from 9:00 to 10:30. The next event, literally 100 feet away in an adjacent building, was slotted to start at 11:00. Well, they got us to the testing center fifteen minutes early, so the assessment started promptly at 9:00, and since it was timed, it took exactly an hour, leaving us with literally an extra hour to sit around and chat, mostly about how long we were having to wait.*

Today we got boxed lunches. It’s a step down from yesterday’s enormous spread from Goode’s BBQ, but hey, still free. No complaints here.

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One of the first things I learned today at law school orientation is that there are 255 people in my entering class. I don’t know quite what I was expecting, but that’s a heck of a lot of people, especially when they’re all packed into an auditorium. It was a bit overwhelming, but fortunately we won’t convene in one room again until graduation, or so we were told.

The best thing about orientation was that after the introductory speeches they split us up into “mentor groups,” each consisting of about ten 1Ls, two upperclassmen, and a faculty advisor. A dozen new people at once? That I can handle. I think I might even remember the names of half the folks in my group, a feat I’m considering a win.

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