graduation day

"this morning i woke up feeling brand new"

I got my jd swag going on. I still can't believe on my way to being a lawyer, but for now, no more law school exams ever.

Like jay-z said "I aint passed the bar, but I know a little bit"

wu-tang forever

I would have never thought that 14 years later after I first popped proteck your neck in the tape deck (radio raheem styles), that I would get to see the wu live on stage...in minneapolis at first ave at all places. To be honest, when I heard they were gping to be in MN I thought mybe it was going to be a few members, you know like u-god, and masta killa, and up until the lights came on and the killer bee sounds started I was unprepared to see every member (minus the rza) in full wu mode. The whole show brought back memories of 93 and me, and my bro and my old school friend kd drawing wu symbols on anything and everything. For me seeing the wu, is like seeing that one band or artist that pretty much defines your childhood, where everysong brings back some sort of memory. I'm sure for some people that maybe someone like nirvana, or 2pac, spicegirls, bob dylan, or whoever. But for me the wu pretty much sums up everything about the 90s and the way me and my crew rolled back in the hood in the tdot.
I wish my brother could have been here, he would have lost it.

Da Art of Storytellin'

Dear law school,

When I started I thought I knew you. Those first couple weeks was probably the most exhilerating learning experience of my life. And then after about two months of learning and getting a feeling of all the different subjects, it was contracts that caught my heart. And the more I got to know contracts, the more I liked it. And after first year, I had this feeling in my heart that I wanted to get involved with contract law.

And then year two started and my fondness for contracts morphed into corporate law, and I was pretty certain that corporate law was where I wanted to be. But then shortly after year two began, intellectual property came on the scene and caused my focus to waiver. But after trying ip for a while I knew it was something that I didn't see myself in, so I went back into focusing in corporate law. Unfortunatly ip never really left me alone and even though I thought corporate law was cool, the first signs of being a confused law student came to light around Feb. Corporate law which had transitioned to securities law ended up being more difficult then I had prepared for. And even though I studied as hard as I could and put forward my best effort, I had to question if securities law was really what I wanted to do.

So after my second year I decided to take a look at litigation and to my surprise it was something that I kind of liked. It offered new challeneges and experiences and even though I still liked corporate law I thought that I should at least give litigation a chance. But then just when I thought I had it all figured out, my new found love for litigation came to a halt, all while my previous confusion between ip and corporate law came back to light.

So then as law school was coming to an end and taking some days off to go skiing and play some hockey to see if I could figure it all out. I came to the conclusion that I pretty much hate IP, my heart was never really in litigation, and corporate law will always be cool, but that's about it.

In the end, it turns out that my heart was with international law all along.

champion

Throughout my life I can point to the people that have made a significant positive impact on the way I think or do things. Ofcourse that includes family and close friends, but every now and then there are people that come into your life at a certain time and it is like they show you something that isn't there.

Today was my last official day working for my judge who I consider one of those people. Simply just an amazing person who I learned so much about the law and more importantly about myself.

And of course seeing all the behind the scenes action from the chambers...unbelievable...but you have to be there to appreciate, and its probably confidential.

I Was Young, I Was Surviving The Times

The Heart Gently Weeps

So today was officially my last day of class barring some sort of unexpected event that brings me back for another term. The whole day left me with this weird feeling, knowing that this is really it for my academic classroom career. A lot of people asked me if I was excited. And no doubt I am but its kind of a bittersweet moment. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm done early and its like I'm leaving all the people that I've grinded it out with over the last 2 and a half years but we can't share those same anxious feelings about graduation just yet.

So as I sat there in my last class (a seminar) with about 5 minutes left, I kept thinking to myself this was truly it. And although the last year of law school is actually pretty underwhelming, I enjoyed my time here. Still, I got 3 deadly exams and a paper, so I'll be seeing all my library friends for atleast 2 more weeks.

Its like zack morris said "school is great, it's too bad classes get in the way"