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[19 Sep 2010|04:45pm] |
To pursue another internship, or not to pursue another internship? That's the question. My course load is definitely less substantial now that I'm in third year -- more clinics, more tailoring to individual interests, way less Socratic method -- but it's still only September, and who knows what could happen? It'd be rough if I decided to pursue something only to realize that my eyes were bigger than my stomach.
How do other people juggle work and class without dropping either one? I've never really done it before. Total absence of real-world, non-classroom experience rears its ugly head (again).
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[12 Aug 2010|03:11pm] |
Ridiculous how time flies: when I first moved into the hotel, I was in the middle of my first year at UCLA Law. Now, I have less than a month until I start the third and last.
So many people here have gotten the jump on me in regards to gainful employment (and so many with so much success, too.) I'm sure, because of that, it'll sound ridiculous when I admit that I'm feeling pretty nervous about being kicked out of the warm, familiar college environment out there into the real world. But I am. And quite a change it'll be, when I get that diploma in my hand.
So, if you're entering college this year, congrats! Enjoy it. It's going to be an amazing ride, but the experience ends much sooner than it ought to.
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[18 Jun 2010|12:02am] |
Losing Game 7 is heart-breaking -- I understand Game 7 as being roughly equivalent to being your final appeal. And losing that? Ouch. At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that my home team fought hard to the very end.
Good job, Lakers, and to the Celtics, remember! There's always next year.
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[21 May 2010|04:15pm] |
Not usually one for cabin fever, but sticking by the home/hotel front does as often as we've had to this month plus an end to the semester means that we (or at least I) are running low on creative ways to spend a whole lot of free time.
For my part, I need to lock down a summer internship. For anyone else's, if you're looking for new and innovative things to do, this guy's cooking tutorials on YouTube are definitely where it's at. Hot dogs and peaches: fantastic combination, right?
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[27 Mar 2010|03:24pm] |
A year older, a year wiser; I leave it to you to guess which of the previous two points is thoroughly debatable.
Hope all the other March babies lately have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy their days!
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[14 Feb 2010|03:08pm] |
Today you're all writing poetry for one another, and declaring your love for one another in extremely dramatic terms, but mark my words. Everything may be coming up roses, but it's only for now. Before you know it, one of you will break your engagement to the other through a Facebook message, and make everyone involved feel very sorry.
Not trying to be negative; just trying to warn you all that true love is dead, if it ever really was there to begin with.
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[29 Dec 2009|07:18pm] |
Season's greetings from the frozen tundra of Boston, Massachusetts, where I am spending a week or two of my Christmas break with family.
How's the weather in southern California, hoteliers and hotel-goers? Hope you all are doing better than the 13°F we've got here -- I'm envisioning lots of sun and sand and envying the hell out of you all.
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[15 Dec 2009|01:58pm] |
Exams feel like they've been dragging on forever, but finally light at the end of the tunnel! The season for Law is always different from the rest of the school, but on the 18th I'll finally be free.
Maybe the season's not as harsh as last year, but God, will I still need a drink once I'm done.
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[20 Nov 2009|01:50pm] |
California Students Riot Over Tuition Gouging
Fears for the Future of the University of California
Not sure if a hike in fees will apply to me, because I'm not an undergraduate (and I'd like to think I pay enough already), but a 32% increase? California's a bankrupt state; some increase was inevitable, but that is both incredible, and pretty worthy of protest.
There's a building at Berkeley that got taken over, and I'm hearing that 50 kids at Davis got arrested. Anyone at UCLA catch the protests yesterday? The first blog says they rushed the building, but word on the street was that they had the regents cornered, full stop.
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[12 Sep 2009|01:01am] |
Standards for student freedom are more limited than they would be in other public spaces for the purposes of ensuring student safety and stability in the academic environment. If you've followed the news at any point in the last decade or so, you'll probably well acquainted with the level of paranoia associated with violence in schools. Some of it justifiable. Think of all the kids who pull shenanigans with guns in the classroom.
So, moral of the story: while having to report your mutations to the administration blows in practice, they'll probably win in principle if/when you fight them on it.
But, as stated, in legal parlance: it blows.
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[16 Jul 2009|10:15am] |
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Jesus. No time like the present to move in with you guys.
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[25 Jun 2009|12:40pm] |
Anyone else following this Mark Sanford thing out of South Carolina? The e-mail messages coming out of it are fantastic and worth reposting everywhere imaginable:
Two, mutual feelings .... You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details ...
"Two magnificent parts of yourself?"
I'd just like to know how the newspaper actually got ahold of these.
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[10 Jun 2009|09:35am] |
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Completely frivolous complaint, but I need to make it someplace: if they have this made available to the public, and it's already been released in Japan, I just can't understand why they have to make the United States wait until Winter 2009 for the whole thing aside from the idea that they just want to torture us.
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[13 May 2009|10:26pm] |
And then I emerged from the hellfire and torment of final exams.
I've gotten advice telling me that exams are never worse than when you're a 1L, since you move from the basics to courses that are more specialized. Let's not go through that experience again any time soon. Or, more preferably, never again. Anything of importance I missed while I was out?
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[22 Apr 2009|09:17pm] |
Going dark in a few days. Six exams and an orgy of final papers this season, beginning on the 27th and ending on the 11th, so I need to buckle down if I plan to do well any of them. I know some people are interested in attending law school, so for their benefit, here's my lineup: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law I, Contracts, Lawyering Skills, Property and Torts. Each of these are slated to take four hours. Crunch the numbers and that should that add up to a solid 24 hours of testing by the time the season's over, which just makes me all the more excited for this to get underway.
I'll see you on the other side.
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[05 Apr 2009|12:08am] |
Researching clever loopholes that would keep outsiders off hotel property, just in case you guys end up needing one of them.
Thus far, my conclusion: trespass laws are useless.
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[29 Mar 2009|12:00pm] |
Hi there. Vange Whedon, first year, UCLA Law.
Can't pretend I'm not impressed by the hotel setup, especially since I have to pony up $1500 a month at the Westwood Apartments for a hole in the wall of comparable size.
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