Snakes on a Plane

Today is Monday, August 21. In a rather exciting turn of events yesterday, I got a call from Samuel L. Jackson who told me to stop wasting my time studying and go watch the movie Snakes on a Plane. While this call was great, and presuming they were/are not pilfering the phone numbers for some sort of free advertising/telemarketing scheme, I must have sent this to five or six of my friends who I thought would get a kick out of it. You probably have heard about it, but the link is here: Snakes on a Plane Cell Call. The only way the call could have been better is if he quoted a couple lines from Pulp Fiction.

In law related news, today was the first day of classes. Unfortunately for me, Samuel L. and Snakes on a Plane will have to wait for another day. For your edification, allow me to provide a brief insight into the differences between the 1L and 3L first day of classes.

As a 1L, you aspire to read meticulously every detail of every case. You probably type or write what become meaningless facts and procedural postures into your notes, highlight everything in four or five different colors and pray you aren’t the first person in your class to be called on, not because you can't answer the questions, but because you are afraid of how the rest of the class will respond in the case you are totally wrong. That generally holds true for your third year, assuming you change the first sentence in this paragraph by dropping the word “meticulously”, replacing “every” with “any” and “aspire” to “probably will not.” You still write or type your notes, although by now you know where you can sit in the classroom so that you can pick up the wireless internet the best. The number of highlighters in your bag dwindles to two, one, or none. You may or may not want to be called on, but not because you care what your classmates think, but because you are in the middle of fighting Piston Honda on your computer or messing with your fantasy team.