Who am I?

It feels fitting for my first post, I answer to question, to some extent for both you and myself. While, for the time being I will be anonymous (going against the advice of AR at "Three Years of Hell"), I will reveal a few things about myself. I am an incoming 1L just days away from orientation at my DC area law school. I took two years off between undergrad and law school to earn some money and focus on taking the LSATs. I am a part time student (such a misnomer considering that "part time" is only one class less than full time). Aside from that, I really don't know who else I am.

Scarred, nervous, nauseous. Those would all be words that describe me. I just spent the past hour and a half working on my first Contracts assignment. Twenty seven pages are assigned. I've read seven. As must research/ book reading/ advice getting as I have done for the past two years since undergrad, I am still not completely prepared. In fact, after reading and taking notes on those first seven pages of Contracts, I am pretty sure almost everything I learned about law school in the past two years has just flown out the window.

I am not completely shaken though (well, I am not reduced to crawling up in a ball any crying,) as I have held on to a few things:

• There are no "undergrad law classes," which is advice that I have gotten from multiple lawyers. So that fact that I hadn't taken one isn't causing me to feel like I am at some great disadvantage.
• "Don't be intimidated," which is advice from a friend that had just graduated from law school. Personally, I need to remind myself of that, and after I do, I realize, I am on the same playing field as everyone else in my class. We all know the same thing on day 1, which is NOTHING.
• The idea that Justin Spizman's words are very comforting. A while ago, he was in my shoes too. He wrote a book about it, called The insider's guide to your first year of law school. I am not saying his words are law, I am just saying it is nice to hear that someone else was there, feeling some of the same things I am feeling. If you are considering law school pick up a copy.

So what now? Well, I need to calm down and crack open the Contracts book again. I invite you to join me as I work through the next three years and put my musings in blog form. Along the way, I'll post some tips and tricks, and hopefully my current nausea will turn into someone else's learning experience.