Wow

Long story short - law school is hard as crap and I love it.

I've done more work in the first two-and-a-half days of class as I did in entire semesters of undergrad. The going rate right now is about ten pages of reading per hour. If you can hit that mark, you're doing well. One of my classes is assigning 25 pages of material per class period. You do the math. Add time spent briefing cases, reviewing class notes and procrastinating on Facebook and you're easily looking at four to five hours of work per class for that one course. And I've got four of 'em.

That said, this stuff is incredible. Everything is interesting so far and I've never been around people so intelligent. I find myself constantly saying to myself, "Wow, why didn't I think of that?" All of the thinking is abstract. It's not like there are concrete rules or there are formulas for finding out the answers to these problems. It's about making your mind work in bizarre and creative ways to get the maximum results. And I really like that challenge.

I'm gonna sign off now because I literally have hours of reading ahead of me. But that's okay. Because I like it. Call me a masochist, but this stuff is pretty cool.

Oh, and for what it's worth, this semester my classes are: Torts, Legal Writing, Constitutional Law and Contracts.