Law Students

A Week In the Life Of Steve Pirates.

By Steve Pirates

Monday: 7:00a.m. Wake up. Eat, bathe, read. 9:50a.m. Legal Skills lecture. 10:50a.m. Civ Pro II lecture. 12:05p.m. Go home, read, read, lunch, read, laundry. 8:20p.m. Legal Skills Appellate Advocacy Competition. 10:00p.m. Go home, sleep.

Tuesday: 7:00a.m. Wake up. Coffee, bathe. 9:25a.m. Property lecture. Read, read, read, blog, read, lunch, video games. 2:45p.m. Torts lecture. Go home, read, read, write. Go to mall, buy “business casual attire” for Thursday. Dinner with Kate. 10:00p.m. Go to bed. 10:05a.m. Marines decide to fly a helicopter over my apartment back and forth till 4:00a.m. 4:30a.m. Give up on sleep.

Wednesday: 7:00a.m. Coffee. Find out I made Legal Skills Competition Finals. Coffee. Coffee. 9:00a.m. Plumber comes to replace dishwasher. 10:36a.m. rush to school. 10:50a.m. Civ Pro II lecture. Lunch. Read, coffee, read, read, scrabble. Go over notes for competition. 2:40 Contracts lecture. Go home, laundry for competition, read, coffee, run through of a few arguments. 6:00p.m. head to school. 6:30p.m. Legal Skills dinner. Find out my “time” is 9:00p.m. Wander around school and chat with people till 9:00p.m. 9:30p.m. Actually go. 10:00p.m. Award Ceremony, and photo ops. 10:30p.m. head home. 11:00p.m. compare awards with Kate (she got two at her work). 12:00a.m. Sleep the sleep of the dead.

Thursday: 8:00a.m. Wake up. 8:30a.m. Wake up for real. Head to school. Pick up a bagel and coffee at school. 9:25a.m. property lecture. Revise resume (to include competition results). Coffee. 1:00p.m. Career Services meeting. Lunch. 2:00p.m. send revised resume out to Los Angeles opportunity. 2:40p.m. Contracts lecture. Head home, change into “Business Casual”. 5:00p.m. head back downtown to Visions for meet n’ greet with admitted scholars. 6:00p.m. arrive at Visions. Find my fiance and her co-worker at the bar watching March Madness (they had an event at the Hard Rock and had come over to the bar to watch the games). 6:30p.m. Meet the newly admitted scholars, and spend the next few hours answering questions about school, and explaining why I chose California Western over University of San Diego, etc. 9:00p.m. Head home with Kate. 10:30p.m. Go to bed.

Friday: 7:00a.m. Wake up. Shower, shave, put on Biz Cas look #2. 8:15a.m. Head to school. 9:00a.m. Have breakfast in the faculty lounge with the admitted scholars. (I wonder if the food they had was for the event or if the faculty always has that spread laid out). 9:40a.m. Lead half the students on a tour, and answer a lot of questions. 10:50a.m. Sit in on Prof. Barton’s Civ Pro II lecture covering Issue Preclusion with the admits. (So that’s one extra review session for me, yay!) 12:05p.m. Head to lunch with the admits to Napa Valley Grill. Sit with some admits, and Ms. Whalen from admissions. The Dean joins our table, and answers questions for everyone. 2:15p.m. Run back to campus. 2:40p.m. Contracts. 4:00p.m. Head home, remove tie, add jacket. 5:00p.m. Head to Trustee Roy Bell’s house. Park by La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club. Walk across the cove. 6:00p.m. Cocktail hour/reception at the Bell’s with the admits, faculty and administration. 7:00p.m. Sat for dinner with two admits, another student, two trustees and The Dean’s wife. 8:00p.m. Best. Chocolate. Mousse. Pyramid. Ever. 8:30p.m. Introduce a few admits to faculty who are involved in programs or areas of law that the admits are interested in. 9:00p.m. Walk back to car. 10:00p.m. Crack open an ice cold Zima at home with Kate. 12:00a.m. Crash out.

Saturday: Go to the LBC to see family

Sunday: Study. Take engagement photos (weather permitting).

Full post as published by Jolly Lawger on March 29, 2008 (boomark / email).