Congratulations Spoons. It’s about a year since I finished my law degree and I’m still enjoying not having to study.
ALRIGHT! Milkshakes all around! 
Congratulations, Spoons! Do you know what kind of law you’d like to practice?
Congratulations! Enjoy your victory.
Spoons, as you join us in this august profession of the law, …
please accept my heartfelt condolences.
Now there are some memories–I haven’t thought of the “leering glasses guy” for a while. Whatever happened to him? I recall there were some questions about the legality of the process he had to go through–he couldn’t offer a defense, or he was convicted in absentia or something. What happened there; do you know?
I was officially registered at U of T’s Scarborough College, and while I did take classes there, I also spent a great amount of time on the St. George campus. Oddly enough, it was actually more convenient for me than Scarborough, so I made great use of the libraries and Hart House. I did date a girl who lived at New College though, and so I was there a number of times for the Friday night pubs and whatnot.
As for high school, nope, I lived in the city itself, so I went to a Toronto high school: Lawrence Park CI. I did study music privately from Appleby’s music teacher, though this would have been the early to mid 90s, so it would have been after your time, and you probably wouldn’t know him.
Congratulations, Spoons! Welcome to the SDMBar, our not so elite little club. 
Thanks, Q.N. I well recall you as being very helpful with my questions, and I’m glad you popped into the thread–many thanks! As for what I’d like to do with my degree, well, that’s still open. The articling year is intended to give you a taste of everything, so you can find out what you like and can do well at in a practical sense, rather than thinking you might like a certain field based on what you read in class.
If I had to choose right now, though, I’d have to pick Criminal Law. Our school had a little legal clinic, and I rather liked handling my criminal files, going to court, and so on. I also enjoyed, and did well in, my Criminal Procedure and Sentencing classes. Of course, this choice is prompting the typical question: how can I defend people like rapists and murderers? Well, they have a right to legal help and somebody’s got to supply it; and besides, from what I saw at the courthouse, rapes, murders, and armed robberies aren’t as common as the media would have us believe. Mostly, the offenses were small things: a kid graffiti tags a wall, a clerk in an electronic store steals an IPod and gets caught, a drunk punched another guy in a bar fight. Sure, Paul Bernardo and Ted Bundy committed heinous crimes and made the news, but from what I saw, there were a great number of cases that are nowhere near as serious or as newsworthy.
A close second would be Insurance Law. I don’t know why I was fascinated by it–perhaps it was that I did a couple of tech writing contracts involving insurance companies, so I was familiar with insurance concepts–but I was, and I’d like to explore it a little more.
Serious congratulations!
I speak as one who has had to take 3 law classes in another major, and I am just going “How in the hell could anyone survive an entire cirriculum of this? This is HARD!!!”
A significant achievement, I stand in awe.