Admin Law Grade and Preparing for 2L

Easy A and “enjoying” the summer internship in Downtown Brooklyn

I got an A in Admin Law, there wasn’t even a minus. The summer class may have been uncurved (which are usually easy A’s) and there was a choice between an in person paper final or writing a final paper. I played it smart and chose to write the final paper. He gave feedback throughout the writing process and he did not care about proper blue book citations. I am still happy about my A, even if the professor may have been relaxed when it came to grading due to it being a summer course.

I celebrated by getting a chicken and guacamole bowl at Chipotle. The guac may have been extra but I felt as if I deserved to treat myself. I have been showing up to my judicial internship in family court and making the best of it, I did well in a summer course while interning, commuting from Brooklyn to Queens every days of the week, and I have been navigating the city pretty well for a broke girl.

Now all that is left is to finish this externship in Brooklyn at the Family Court and apply for internships for next summer (or during the Fall and Spring semester). I am anxious to enter into my second year of law school. I am a junior staff memeber for a secondary law school journal, which I am going to be in Long Island this weekend for the orientation. I am not looking foward to all the work the journal is going to entail. I have to start picking a topic already to write about and I am struggling to find one. I am considering writing about fashion and tax, so I am starting to do research and hopefully find some inspiration. I can barely decide what to eat every night for dinner let alone a journal topic.

After next week I am going to be starting to prepare for classes next semester. I got another sleeve from Coconut Lane. It is pink with roses 🤗. I have to buy a new lunch bag (the string on mine broke and I lost it on the subway), buy the online bluebook for my journal, buy some new clothes, and figure out my commute and the bus system in Long Island. Soon I am going to need to buy a walking pad for my room so I do not have to walk to the gym in the winter. I was freezing walking from the gym to the dorm all sweaty when it was freezing outside. Winter is going to here before I know it and last winter took time for me to adjust, but it beats this humidity (two heat waves so far, I feel so embarassed walking into the court house sweaty).

Mentally I am preparing for the second year by taking what I leaerned from the yoga mat and applying it to law school. My instructor on the Peleton App always says “it is yoga, it is not that serious.” Yoga so far has taught me it is okay to be messy and fall, just get back and keep trying. The instructor told us to go into yoga with a child like curiosity. Children do not care about how they when when the fail or fall they just do it over and over again. I am going to go into the second year not afraid to fail and going to try my best. I know I have to stop comparing myself to others. It is okay I do not have a job for next summer yet at a big law firm, it is okay I am on a secondary law schooI journal and not on Law Review, it is okay if I am not in the top 20% of the class, it is okay if I am not at the law library all day everyday. I am going to focus on trying to do the best I can and focus on getting a good job post-grad (hopefully not in the state court house).

I am excited for my classes next semester I am taking Con Law II with the same professor from Con Law I so I know what I am getting myself into, Foundation of Lawyering Skills (do not ask me what it is), Patents, and Business Organizations. I do not know anything about patents and business so we will see how this upcoming fall semester goes.