This past Thursday was the graduation ceremony. It was full of pomp and circumstance (and of course, Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance”), and marked the end of three years of lengthy readings, often-interesting-but-occasionally-dull lectures, exams that drove me buggy, and essays that, perhaps strangely, I rather enjoyed. In many ways, it really was like The Paper Chase–while I can’t say we experienced a Professor Kingsfield, we did read the landmark cases in the common law. Many were Canadian, since we were studying in Canada; but we also studied landmarks from other places, and I think that these together with our study of Canadian cases gave us a good grounding in the common law.
It was great to see my classmates again at the graduation, but we’re all looking forward to getting out there and doing what we’ve studied for the past three years. Of course, we’re all going to have to deal with the articling year and the bar courses, but we’re well-prepared and on our way to becoming lawyers.
I must thank the Dopers who were good enough to answer my questions over the past four years or so. As some of you may recall, I asked about everything from how a mature student would be treated at law school (I was in my mid-40s when I began considering the idea) through writing the LSAT. Later, after I made it into school, Dopers helped with such things as how to cite 18th century American legislation, which is something they didn’t think to cover in my Legal Research and Writing class. At any rate, the answers I received here were solid, and the suppport that the community here supplied kept me going, and I thank you all for it.
I must especially thank those Dopers with whom I’ve corresponded privately. Your help and support meant a great deal to me, and certainly helped me get through school. Should we ever meet in person, the first round is on me–and the second one too.
Wow, I made it. It hasn’t quite sunk in yet, but I earned my law degree. Hooray!
