Classes Starting Means Summer Ending

For some reason while packing my backpack for tomorrow's first day of classes, I got that little tingle I have gotten every year for 18 years (I'm in the 18th grade...wow). The little excitement that tomorrow brings a new school year with fresh opportunities and a whole new set of classes and professors. So anyways...between the new apartment and being a newlywed and having a new school year, nothing is quite the same as it was a mere 3 months ago.

so I did my first day readings, and there are some constants. Shipman assigns readings like we've got nothing better to do all day than his class, but that is to be expected after Property was exactly the same. He reads a lot, so I guess he expects us to as well. I guess in the long run we learn more. Copyright was a terribly basic introduction about the justifications for why we protect written and other works. Yawn. The tip of the top was opening up the Federal Income Taxation books. You see there's the textbook which is probably 800 pages, and the SELECTED federal income tax code sections and regulations book which is 1900 pages long (out of about 12000 pages of the stuff in total on the books)...and as a bonus, a tax map which is a big wall sized complicated line chart showing how this all works. So the intorductory reading was 16 pages long. The first 2 pages are intorduction, page 3 is a basic tax problem where a married couple has a certain number of income and expenditures and etc...and they are jointly filing and we are supposed to use the tax code to find out what their gross income is, adjusted gross income, taxable income, tax owed, etc. They even tell you exactly what code sections to go to, and it still takes 11 pages to explain the answers. Then the last 2 pages is a 1040 form which summarizes the tax code and makes it useable for real people. So anyways before I even get into class I have concluded...it is obvious why America hates taxes and the IRS. NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND IT ALL. This class should be crazy.

So I have Accounting for Lawyers and Federal Income Taxation. I pulled out the TI-92 tonight and put it in the backpack, because if there was ever a time in law school to use a super awesome calculator (OK really any calculator at all)...this would be it. So I'm busting out the 92 to enjoy a little math in law school. Let's look at my schedule again.

Tax - 4 days a week of math word problems
Accounting - 4 days a week of math problems
Copyright - 2 days a week of IP!
Patent - 2 days a week of good IP!
App Ad - Oh well, guess they cannot all be awesome.

At least if second year first semester is going to kill me, I should be happy with the subject material. So we begin tomorrow.