These were the words of advice my loving wife gave to me as I left for the first day of law school. She is such a great support system! After studying for the LSAT, applying to schools all across the nation, and a cross country move I am proud to announce that law school has finally begun. I can honestly say that I am still not sure exactly what I am in for, but Jocelyn and I are having fun trying to figure it out together. There is so much information that you have to take in at once, I don't even know what I have really learned yet. Here are some things I have organized in an outline that explain what I know I have learned:
- You have to read a lot in law school.
- You have to study a lot in law school.
- You have to make a lot of outlines in law school.
Good luck Joe!
ReplyDeleteLove the outline...nice work Joe! I took a picture like this one of John on his first day of law school too. (Only you look like your holding a briefcase or a lap top - I sent John with a lunch box. haha) Great talkin to you guys last night. You'll make one great lawyer. Happy outlining :)
ReplyDeleteHere are some more words of advice, Joseph.
ReplyDelete- an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
"All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned - the biggest
word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any of those items and extrapolate it into
sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your
family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
Think what a better world it would be if
all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you
are - when you go out into the world, it is best
to hold hands and stick together."
Jocey, try to have cookies and milk waiting for him from time to time. He's gonna need it (and his blanket!)