| | Often, people will ask me if I'm enjoying law school. Interesting question. Allow me to present a response in IRAC* form.
Issue: Am I having fun in law school?
Rule: The only rule about fun of which I'm aware is 'time flies when you're having fun.'
Application: The time seems to have flown since I've been in law school. Here we are at the end of the third quarter, the mythical "first year," the "1L year," and I'm still alive. I feel happier than I have in a long time, particularly because I'm being stretched and challenged more than I ever have. There is less time remaining between now and marrying Tovah than there is time between now and the time I left Brownwood and getting to see her on a regular basis.
Conclusion: Although I wouldn't call it fun in the sense that a trip to Schlitterbahn, a football game, or the beach might be, in some respects, I guess I'm having fun.
In other news, finals are coming up in one week. Soren Kierkegaard wrote about Fear and Trembling. Soren Kierkegaard must have been to law school, or he does not know about that which he writes.**
-AJR
* - For my non-lawyer readers, IRAC is an acrostic, perhaps now a mnemonic with the war in Iraq, representing the Issue presented by the facts, the relevant Rule(s) of law, the Application of law to fact, and the Conclusion which may be derived from that application / analysis. If you don't find it funny, that's ok. We were warned at BLS orientation that we would cease being funny after about the halfway point in the first quarter.
** - If Dr. Roark is reading, I'm just kidding. I know why Kierkegaard wrote the way he did, and that book title was about all I could think of for a good joke. Please don't change my grade now, I really was paying attention in your class!
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