Well, I am typing this from Ave Maria School of Law, where Day 1 of Orientation is now underway. I’m looking forward to getting into the learning part of law school rather than just learning about how we’re going to be learning… Fortunately this afternoon we’ll be delving into a case from the inside out.
In an effort to force myself to keep good notes, I’ve decided to set up a wiki with all my notes from law school. Visitors — perhaps even fellow students — will be able to edit and correct any mistakes I make and perhaps we can make the notes a resource people can use. If not, I’ll always have them and the mere fact that I’ll be taking notes for a potentially public audience will lead to me producing higher quality notes. Well, that’s the idea at least.
Here’s the link:
http://law.dominik.net/
I’m all moved into my apartment after an eventful drive over that involved a flat tire (I drove over a piece of metal on the highway and had to pull over). The flat tire made me miss my lease-signing appointment, which resulted in me standing outside the leasing office with my stuff and nowhere to go. I called the main office and their emergency number but they assured me there was nothing they could do.
Providentially, a random passerby we asked happen to know the resident-number for a maintence worker and somehow the very same maintence worker that the main office had said was unavailable showed up. He then appraised the situation and called the very same manager that the main office had also said was unavailable. The manager then approved the worker to call a leasing office person who graciously came in after hours, opened the leasing office and let me sign my lease, get my keys and move in.
All in all, it was a satisfying end to a stressful day. There was a moment there where I thought I would have to drive back home and get up at 5:30 in the morning, since I had nowhere to put my stuff. Fortunately, God came through (I don’t believe in coincidences) and after some meditation on the subject, I think the lesson I was supposed to learn from all of this is to trust God completely — try the best at what I can do, but when that fails, trust that God will come through, as he did by the happenstance of a random passerby who could help.
And so law school has begun. I will continue to blog and if for whatever reason you’re interested in what notes from classes look like, law.dominik.net will have those as well (once I start attending classes in which I can take notes).
