I was sitting in Civ. Pro. one day, and it did suddenly make sense. I could understand everything the prof. was saying, and it seemed almost like common-sense. It was like suddenly understanding foreign language. Then Pennoyer and International Shoe came along…
Ralph124c, actually, next semester (once we get through the absurd group final) the stupid diversity class turns into a useful class where we do work with real clients (as a group, with a TA helping us) and learn how to measure our time in six-minute increments. They just wanted to waste a semester of our time “sensitizing” us to the clients, which I think is a more condescending attitude than anything a 1L might have come to school with.
tramp and Cliffy, I can’t imagine working during law school. That must have been very difficult. I worked 20-30 hours week in college, but, other than co-ops, I’m not going to work in law school.
I am surprised at all the wrangling over words that goes on, the word by word parsing. I feel like saying, “Can we all agree on the definition of an employee and just get on with our work?” I know it’s necessary though, and it’s kind of cool to take a statute apart and put the useful pieces back together.
Hi Rhum Runner and anu-la1979, we’ll all be wearing our cool JD gowns and hoods at about the same time. Good luck 
BTW, anu-la1979, contracts and criminal law sound so interesting, I can’t wait for next semester, you’re so luck to have them now. I hate to suggest it, but you might want to buy your Civ. Pro. textbook before Christmas, and maybe download the Emanuel Civ. Pro. outline from Lexis and study them both over the holidays. My fondest wish is to go back in time a few months and study Civ. Pro. all summer.