Orientation 1

Well I wake up with something important to do for the first time in a while...feels good. Drive down to Moritz and since my pass is good until September (i'm still not planning to buy a new one) I decided to park on campus. I got the second closest C (student) spot to Moritz and moseyed into the building probably looking like everyone else unsure of what they will find inside. Pick up a namebadge and folder of great info...then grab a little contenental breakfast while waiting on stuff to start. Only notable thing was the Dean of the College of Law being the first to make conversation with me while I waited and then finally the Upper Arlington kids showed up, Sam and Cat and another UA guy I did not know yet from last week's get togethers. Cat went to Kenyon in Ohio for undergrad and I told her I had a high school classmate named Aaron go there...she totally hooked up with him when she was there. Small schools I tell ya. Well we finally get moving into the auditorium where to sit together as a group of 5, we had to sit in the front row. Our associate dean introduced us to Moritz first by giving us perspective on what makes up our class, and we come from varied backgrounds and big achievements a plenty. She also gave us the numbers for this year, 25th to 75th percentile for LSAT was 158-164 (I was 164) and GPA was 3.3-3.75. Yawn...what a shocker, the numbers have continued to go up as more people try to get in. We are a class of about 230 I would guess, so 3 of my classes will be around 75 people and 2 of them will be 35 or so. About the same as what I am used to in mech eng. Other morning activities included a talk on surviving law school, a talk on our library and computer lab and building security from the head of that department, and a faculty panel where the only thing of note was how everybody recommends just finding out how you take notes and study best. They give us an outline to follow (make case briefs on the reading before class, take supplementary notes in class, then later reflect on these in the big picture and make a course outlne to study for exams), but they do say just fnd what works for you. Most of the faculty seemed very approachable and I hope that will hold true for professors I really have this semester.
We met with our co-counsels then around lunchtime, split into groups of 10-12 with 2 upperclassmen peers called co-counsels. Anybody who went to undergrad at OSU or similar probably had the same thing there. Just a couple people you can contact for any questions you might have, but not worth much else. We ate lunch outside and chattedmostly about outlines, study habits, and campus parking. Stephen S. was in my group and he is one of the people I have been hanging out with a lot at social events because he is a cool guy in section 1 with me. So we spent most of the time chatting anyways.
The afternoon session was a bit more engaging. On a sidenote, the room was absolutely freezing...I have a high body temp and like it cold but everybody was complaining it was so cold in that auditorium. Better than hot if you ask me. The big afternoon thing was a presentation from Global Lead, a company who sends people out into professional settings to fix teamwork problems in the workplace and talk about diversity and inclusion. So we did a lot of hands on participation stuff talking about diversity/inclusion and different types of brain personalities when we become stressed. Hopefully we gain a little perspective from it and study groups or projects might flow more smoothly if we keep these things in mind. The speakers were very humorous and entertaining, so it was actually a good time. After a short break and checking out my locker (that felt like high school...lol), went to the last activity of the day. A professor lectured us on note taking and he was fairly entertaining with his advice but he did not say anything that was not already intuitive or said before by others.
One interesting thing from today, found out that the bowling league at Moritz is the big time shit. Like 130-150 of the 700 students bowl weekly on Wednesday nights. I believe I will be joining them most likely...but we are bowling tonight as a social event as well. I do hope I can get into bowling again as it is something I miss from high school (I league bowled for 4 years). At least midweek I can blow off some steam that way.
If Kelley were up here, I'd be dragging her to the student panel before bowling tonight. Free dinner and they are talking about life in law school with a partner. I know a couple people going and they are bringing their partner...so I'm not going for 2 reasons. 1. I do not want to be one of the only ones without my partner there. 2. I think the information is probably like all other Orientation info, important but not much more than common sense. I want to relax as well before bowling. Another full day of activity tomorrow with what looks like boring stuff before lunch, student activity fair during lunch, and an afternoon speech from Thomas Moyer the cheif justice of the ohio supreme court. Typical orientation stuff...but hey might as well let you all know what's going on. Have a good evening.