Mentor

SO my school has a great mentor program sponsored by the Student Bar Association - today they offered us free lunch and we met our mentors. First of all, free lunch is always awesome. Also, my mentor is awesome! She's a 2L from CA, very sweet and helpful. She was my Property prof's research assistant and had lots of good advice for approaching his class, note-taking, and final exams. We ended up chatting for about an hour and will meet up again sometime before the end of the month - she has some outlines for me and wants to keep tabs on my progress. Yay! Definitely feels good to talk with someone who has already survived her first year. 

Also, I'm getting a lot better at briefs. As I read I write down the basic info - generally no more than a quarter of a page at this point. (my first several briefs were about a page long each). The 2L's swear we'll quit briefing altogether, but I've found that it really helps. I need to boil each case down into a few crucial sentences so that I actually interpret the case rather than just read it. It also helps jog my memory when I sit down to discuss the case in class. Yay progress.

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