Orientation and Food

One of the first things I noticed about Cal Western is they like to feed the students.  Scholar day, Preview day, during Summer Enrichment, 1L Welcome Picnic, and Orientation day are all examples of where the school provided a meal or two for the students.  Guess they feel they can win us over with food!  Not a bad plan.

I was afraid Orientation was going to be a rehash of things learned during other visits to the school.  I am glad the school proved me wrong.  Even if a topic was being repeated during the orientation, the speakers provided different and new information.  This definitely aided in orientation being worthwhile and not a waste of time or exceedingly boring.

Professor Lynch, as usual, was very entertaining.  He related a story from his JAG days in 1975.  He was a Captain (O-6) with several officers below him.  He and some of his underlings were studying for the California bar.  Every time he felt anxiety or fear about the possibility of failing the Bar while his underlings passed, he thought of Seymour.  Now Seymour (not his real name) was stupid, had bad hygiene, and had other nefarious traits which made him slightly undesirable.  Well, Seymour passed the California Bar Exam.  Prof Lynch kept reminding himself of that fact.  "If Seymour can pass, so can I."  He then advised us to find our own Seymour!  While the prospect of a Seymour in the class is tempting, I actually hope my class is filled with Prof Lynch's instead.  Of course, we'll see how this turns out during my tenure in law school.

After lunch, we played "Human Bingo."  I have never played this game before.  This game is definitely an ice-breaker to get people to introduce themelves to each other.  The game was fun and helped to overcome any shyness I might have felt.

The only bad thing, if you want to call it that, is that in my class, specifically in my section, are the two girls from Summer Enrichment I was hoping would not be in my section.  Nothing against these two girls, but they are of foreign descent.  And both have accents I have difficulty understanding!  I hope by the end of my first year, I will develop an ear for understanding every word they speak!

Tomorrow is Day 1.  I completed the first assignment about a half-hour ago.  The exercises from "Plain English for Lawyers" are crushing me.  I've read the assigned reading twice now.  I wish I had taken more English for my undergrad.....