It’s good to be back on campus. During holiday break I returned to NY only to find out that I’m not who I once was. NY is always home BUT… my identity has yet another layer. As a law student I suddenly belong to a community, of stressed, frazzeled and well read people who have felt the same pressures, who have performed and oddly… only they understand the tempo of the life I’m leading.

Semester 2 is easier to face than semester 1 because things are not as mysterious. All of the assignments that could not be done have been completed and the deadlines met. Just in time for a fresh set of deadlines and assignments. There’s less anxiety and high drama attached to an experience you are familiar with, even if it’s not an easy one. It feels comforting to know that I will need to read cases, manipulate fact patterns and get intimate with that !@#$# blue book and that is a comfort if you can believe it.

I got into Spanish Constitutional Law this semester. Which is pretty cool because there are only a limited number of 1L slots are available, it’s primarily for 2 & 3L’s. Spanish Con is a comparative seminar and I will get the chance to think broadly about the way other governments work and (nerd alert) we even get to take the seminar with a professor from the University of Seville at VLS and in Spain.

So semester 2 ‘s class schedule is not too shabby. In addition to the seminar I’m taking Constitutional Law II, Civil Procedure II, Legal Writing II, Property and Criminal Law. After I’ve taken Crim I’ll finally be able to tell whether the writers on my favorite crime drama are making up the dialogue or if it actually makes sense.

If the brevity of semester 1 is any indication semester 2 will be over before I know it. Today is the first day of the rest of the semester.