Orientation 2

Well here we are, finally finished with Orientation. What a beast. I feel mentally drained as the talking heads just kept blabbing at us for 2 days with mostly common sense and reassurances. It is reassuring that unlike schools like Uc-Berkeley (where they fail out 30 percent of their 1L class every year...essentially they accept more than they want and make you earn it to stick around), Moritz is not all that competitive and doesn't have a quota to fail out. They picked 230 people and are sticking with almost all of them hopefully through 3 years. I respect that and despite my numbers being in the upper quartile of our class...I am beginning to be more proud of being accepted there considering how small our class is compared to number of applicants (admit maybe 10 percent or less). Found out over the last two days our law school is cutting edge in the Criminal Law and Dispute Resolution fields. If I like Criminal Law (1L's have to have the basic course in their first semester) then I might look into it more with my intellectual property classes as well. So much time to decide.Tomorrow I will do all the first day assignments for Thursday's classes. sounds like a fun time, but at least I only have assignments in 3 of my 4 classes. Tonight the social event is at a new downtwon upscale bar called Spice Bar. Free food and half off drinks, so I'm going of course. One last party before we have to get down to business this semester.Bowling last night was fun, once I found the place. Gahanna is not the easiest place to get around if you do not know where you are going. Got a group of 6 guys together to bowl some 3 vs. 3. It was Steve Schmitt and Bobby on my team while Sam Adams (no shit, that's his name) took Nate and the other Steve. We won 2 out of the 3 games as a team and bragging rights as I beat Sam all three games (not by much lol) individually for the top score. It was fun and I bet we downed 6 pitchers of beer between us. I did not have that much though and we bowled for a long time, so I was OK to drive back to campus where we all went out to 4 Kegs again. Decent night, we had 8 guys and the others bought a group of 7 girls some shots to celebrate one's 21st birthday. Most of them were from OU or OSU, but I only talked to a couple of them because I'm not interested and we guys were having good discussions to ourselves on the side anyways. Did not get home till around 2 and ate some Jimmy Johns I picked up on the way home because I was starving. Wait...I'd have to not eat for a month to actually be starving but whatever. Hard wake up for Orientation this morning. Couldn't find a single spot in any student lot on south campus, and this is off season for undergrads. OSU Trans and Parking had the gall to sell parking passes to us today at lunch. I don't think so, there's free parking on many streets near campus if you don't mind walking 3-4 blocks. The morning couldn't have been duller with a speech on Honor Code (I'll sum this half hour up for you simply: Students, don't cheat and play nice with fellow classmates.) and Professional Responsibility. Then we split into sections for the first time and had a couple icebreakers yay! I'm totally the only engineer in my section. Cat from Dension (mentioned earlier) was a math major, but nothing else in those 35 people even resembles technical background. Guess that's good news for my future in IP classes. but I still wanted a fellow engineer in my section. Lunch was fantastic and we had a law student activity fair also around this time. I signed up for 15 groups listservs, but obviously I will not be joining most of them. Just seeing what they have to offer, and most don't let first years do much anyways. My most hopefuls were Christian Law Society, Law College Republicans, and Intellectual Property Society. Also signed up for stuff like Law College Democrats (I may not support them but I am interested in seeing the good speakers they bring to campus every year...plus I got to have a fascinating convo with a lefty at the info table) and ACLU which are not neccessarily my bag but worth looking into. The only things I really want to do is work on one of the journals during my last 2 years, so I have to get good grades to apply for those spots. To be honest though, the grades don't bother me at all (except for law journal) because OSU will not kick you out as I said before. Each of our classes is set to a 25% A, 45% B, 26% C, and 4% D for the first year and after that they do a similar system which only changes based on GPA's of people in the class (so a hard course taken only by A-level students will offer a curve of almost all A's and B's) You cannot be kicked out unless you have below a 2.0, which should only apply to maybe 2-3 our of 230. So while I know I will be stressed over the workload, I'm just concerned with doing my best and whatever that is...I'm not going to worry about it. We had a keynote type speaker in Chief Justice Moyer in the afternoon and then wrapped it up with an evaluation. boy does OSU love their evaluations. So a day off tomorrow and class on thursday. Law school, here we come.4 classes thursday. Chances of me being called on (Socratic method)...pretty good. I hope I make it through the first time...that will take the anxiety of this system away I think. Better hit the books hard tomorrow just in case.