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Holy crap. Kitsy is in law school? And 21? Damn! Grats on getting in! Is there a particular area of law you're looking at focusing on? My grades were not nearly good enough to get into law school, and even though when I worked in a law library I loved reading the journals we brought in I don't think I have the work ethic to do law.

You should definitely stop by and update us more! Good or bad, it's always wonderful to hear from old friends.

Haha, thanks Lea. c:
I'm not really sure what type of law I'm most interested in... I feel like that's a frustrating decision to make when I'm so uninformed on what actually happens in real law offices. Any actual practicing lawyers I've spoken to have made it abundantly clear that law school is nothing like practicing so how can I possibly know what I want to do...!?
Story of my life haha.

To be honest, my grades weren't really good enough to get in either. But! I can read at what turns out to be a vastly above average speed so I got a ludicrous score on my lsat. I had so much more time to work out the answers to the questions because I had finished reading the passages so much earlier! So yeah, I mostly skated in on natural ability. A big thanks to my parents for reading to me so much as a kid, I suppose. It paid off!

And in terms of work ethic...hahaha. I think it is a well kept secret among lawyers that we're all slackers and procrastinators. We're just better at hiding it, and making bullshit up on the fly. If I had dollar for every time a saw another student answering a question in class by skimming wikipedia, I could make a fort big enough to sleep in out of my loonies.

*waves back*

Thanks, Shells c: I seem to recall revealing my age to a group of you guys over IM one time and hearing a chorus of shocked gasps. Fun times haha.

The only reason I'm worried about specializing is that I have to start choosing my own course in year two. First year everyone takes the same basic classes: contracts, property, torts, constituional and criminal law. But in second year there are a ton of classes to choose from and the ones I choose can affect my eligibility for articling positions later on.

I assume a clerkship would be the australian equivalent to articling here in Canada? I do three years of classes, then a year as an 'articling student' before I'm allowed to write the bar exam and be licensed to practice. Basically I'll be research intern, doing all the boring work no one else in the firm wants any part of. But my eligibility for those positions depends on what classes I take. If i don't have the basic educational grounding in a certain then I can't effectively do the research, basically.

To be honest my current plan is of the throwing darts at the schedule variety.
I certainly like some classes more than others thus far, but I'm fairly certain that has more to do with how interesting and engaging the prof is than anything else.
My property law class is taught by Maichael Caine's long lost twin brother. In other words, its fantastic. But I'm pretty sure the actual subject is awful.

Oh, that's not what I meant, actually! Law graduates here also have to do an equivalent to their articles before being admitted, but by clerkship I meant internship or vacation work. In Australia, most of the law firms offer four to eight week positions over Summer and/or Winter, with the chance of being offered a graduate position at the end.

Thanks, Shells. whee
I've been making avis restlessly over the past couple weeks. I felt like making something brown today, and that turned out kinda hard.
( gonk Why am I awake now?! It's nearly 5AM here, and it's a day off. xP)