The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. That’s the colloquialism, isn’t it? And so true. While I’ve kept busy since taking the bar exam in many ways, I still feel unsettled, like I’m still on pause until the next step. But I have no idea […]
Studying for the bar is no picnic. It’s time consuming, and intense. I knew this would be the case, and decided rather than going back to Michigan to study, to stay in Charlottesville. I figured all of my friends from law school would be here, and I would prefer the […]
I am in the midst of bar review. And it’s intense. Recently I was reviewing for torts. For those who don’t know the law, the best way to describe a tort is to consider it an injury, whether to your person, your property, your reputation, or your mind. There are […]
Today I took the first of my last two finals in law school. I remember my first semester of law school. It was the first time I would actually spend some Saturday nights studying. This may have had to do with the fact that I was still in the process […]
Figures of history have gripped my imagination and retained my wonder since I was a little girl. A character didn’t have to do much to interest me. The very fact that people remember them piqued my curiosity. People like Abraham Lincoln, the Pharohs, Annie Oakley. People who existed before modern […]
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