Seasons of Law

A whole school year of being in Law school has passed elapsed. Now we're blissfully spending our potentially last summer when we wouldn't be compelled to do any law-related work, unaware of our final grades from the second semester and of our eligibility/ ineligibility to enroll for certain subjects next term. Ignorance is bliss, they say; but I think the person who said so might have died not knowing what hit him. There's this anxiety creeping every now and then which I brush off when I remember we can't do anything about the exams we already passed or failed. To pray and pray hard is all we could do, aside from just enjoying every moment of freedom we have for now.

How was a year in law school... I'd borrow a song from Rent the musical to describe it. There are some feelings which words alone cannot express, and I think the whole year couldn't be summed up in a few lines. Nonetheless, here it goes:

525,600 readings. 525,000 moments so dear
525,600 readings. How do you measure, measure a year?
In highlights, in recits, in midnights and cups of coffee. In cases, in piles, in digests, in fives.
525,600 readings. How do you measure a year in the lib?
How about laaaaaw? How about laaaaw? Measure in law. Seasons of law!

Yes, that's how it was and how it will continue to be. FUN! A classmate suggested the "law" be read/sung with a German accent. After a full school year, I would like to believe we're still the same idealistic young people who dream of changing the country, or the world. We don't look like vicious soul-eaters just yet. While our college batch mates were tweeting about finding jobs, exploring, soul-searching, quitting their jobs, or in other words -not being in school and simply living their lives, we were inside the old, cold and dark building we now call our second home.

For those who didn't go digital for their copies of assigned cases, I think they each have at least a 10-ft stack of white paper. That's literally a mountain of readings. More trees will be cut down for our future use. Some might switch to tablets by next sem to help save on paper. Photocopying is expensive, btw. 500-1,000 pesos a week is how much a student would have to shell out to buy photocopies of all assigned readings. #truestory

Here's the cheesy part of this pizza blog: law school was made more fun thanks to these guys. We'll have to bear with each other for three more years. I kid, but only about the "bear with each other" part. Let's all love one another! For the next three YEARS! (years, years, years, years, years, years, years, years.... *fade*)

My apologies to those whose were cut (and also those who don't want their faces in my page.
PM me for violent reactions, if any).
I didn't want our faces to be so recognize-able so I used this app and it kept cutting the edges.