Archive for Life in ‘da 02138
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100 days to go!
No, I haven’t been keeping count myself. Last week, the 3L class marshals hosted the “100 days to go lunch” for all graduating students. The purpose of the lunch was to announce our class speaker and give us information on regalia, class rings, etc. But really what it did was tell us all that our [...]
February 21, 2011
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It’s mid-November already?!
I wanted to let all of the applicants know that it is November 13 and 60 degrees here in Cambridge. Beautiful, sunny skies. And this is how it has been every single day this month. OK, that’s not true, but it is a beautiful day in what has been a bit of a chilly and [...]
November 14, 2010
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La Alianza picked a peck of… apples?
A couple weeks ago, I went apple picking for the very first time. The purpose of the trip was to bond with other members of La Alianza, the Latino student group on campus. I have to say the trip was more of a success than I expected. As part of our group package we were [...]
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Long Distance
Long distance is a frustrating topic for me. Growing up I always said that I would stay in Chicago for college and never leave. I come from a very large Mexican family and no one lived outside of the area when I was in high school. I hadn’t even been anywhere in the United States [...]
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A Day in the Life
As I went through the law school decision-making process last year, I was certainly not shy about asking many questions about what differentiates school X from school Y, if there were differences in career prospects depending on what school you attended, quality of life, make-up of the student body, etc. However, I realized once I [...]
October 18, 2010
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The Return of Fall Break
After I graduated from undergrad, I assumed I would never have a fall break again. The beautiful three-day weekend that used to give us the perfect chance to go apple-picking couldn’t possibly exist in law school, too. I had forgotten, however, about a little guy named Christopher Columbus (and I don’t mean Christopher Columbus Langdell, [...]
October 13, 2010
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The Truth about Dorm Living
Walter Gropius: German architect, Founder of the Bauhaus movement, designer of Harvard Law School dormitory complex named in his honor, the butt of many a pun involving the first syllable of his last name…the list goes on and on. Three weeks into living in the Gropius dorms, I’m starting to understand why these dorms are [...]
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Shaq as a Classmate?
You just never know who you might bump into on the Harvard campus! Shaquille O’Neal recently spent an afternoon hanging out around Harvard and shared some good advice with the Boston Globe for students considering coming here: “If you have the academic ability to come here, I think you should. I can come visit, but [...]
August 31, 2010
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Grapevine gossip confirmed!
My post a couple days ago on Law School Prom conveyed the unconfirmed rumor that Russell Brand and Jonah Hill showed up at our party, and lo and behold, after my submission went up on the website I was sent photographic proof! Russell Brand at the Liberty Hotel with HLSers. This is amazing! Yes, amazing [...]
April 30, 2010
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Word Up!
Last month at the public interest auction a group of people in my section won a night of karaoke with our civil procedure professor, our legal writing professor, and our legal writing professor’s husband (who happens to be an actor on the Wire). Well last week it was time to pay the piper. The group [...]
April 30, 2010
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Law School Prom
For those of you nostalgic for the good old days of high school dances, don’t worry! They come around again in law school! In case it’s not enough of a throw-back for you that you’ll get a locker here, we also have law school prom. As with most things, we call it something different. It’s [...]
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Moral Kombat and Ocean’s Replevin
I have been to two law schools’ parody shows (ours and BU’s, which my friend Karen was in) in the past two weeks. It seems the recipe for this sort of thing is standard, although there may be different flavors at different schools. Make fun of law school students. Make fun of law professors. Include [...]
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Ocean’s Replevin
Every year a group of students at the law school put together a musical parody. They poke fun at professors, politics and legal concepts in general. The show is pretty hilarious… if you are a law student. This year they even put together a non-law-students’ guide to the references in the show. I’m embarrassed to [...]
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Parody
Thinking about first term civil procedure cases? What about if I add lights, choreography, and one-liners? In a continuing tradition, the Harvard Law School Drama Society showcased its annual “Parody” last week, poking fun at life at Harvard Law through an elaborate musical. The 2010 theme, “Ocean’s Replevin,” revolved around a heist planned in response [...]
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South Asian Showdown
I had been looking forward to Boston’s first annual South Asian Showdown for about two months, and I have to say, it was totally worth the wait! My friend Nitya, who is in charge of the Bollywood movie-watching group I’m in, invited a few of us to the SAS, a competition that brought teams of [...]
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Sam Adams, Please
As a law student on a tight budget, I’m a huge fan of events with the word “free” attached to them. So when I heard that I could take a tour of the Sam Adams Brewery for free I got excited. Being excited about a brewery tour caught me by surprise because I had never [...]
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Man Night
When I saw Erin’s post a couple weeks ago, I just knew I had to respond. Last semester I came up with what I think will go down in history as my greatest idea ever. We called it “Man Night.” Essentially it was a chance for some of the guys in my section to get [...]
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A Day (Off) on the Slopes
Having spent my entire pre-HLS life in Florida, I never had the chance to explore all the sights to see and things to do in the Northeast. I’ve since come to appreciate just how much there is up here, how surprisingly mild the weather is and how close Boston is to all kinds of exciting [...]
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Not Snow Much
I’ve said before on this blog that the first step to prepare for Massachusetts weather is to throw all your preconceptions out the window. As further proof, this was the view from my apartment window about three days after last week’s predicted ten-inch “snowpocalypse”: I’ve tried hard to come up with a name for the [...]
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Dinner Party Part Deux (and Trois)
If you make it to your 3L year and have never been to a professor’s house, you have only yourself to blame. Simple oblivion cannot be the reason you missed the boat on this one—there are just too many opportunities. You must have actively chosen not to get on the boat multiple times. If you [...]
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Sparkly Ladies’ Night
A few nights ago I went to Sparkly Ladies’ Night. Most people thought I was kidding when I said I was going to a party named that, but I’m not joking, that’s really what it was called. My 1L section was quite sociable, and the first year here are HLS we started having girls’ nights [...]
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Burger Joints
I am a junk food addict. I think that deep down I am just rebelling against the fact that my mother is a dietitian. After a childhood filled with sliced fruit and whole wheat bread, I love me a good cheeseburger. Since coming to HLS, I have been pleasantly surprised to find that some of [...]
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Dinner Party and Jersey Shore
To celebrate the end of winter term and the 1L class we’ve been teaching, Professor Wilkins invited the teaching team — his assistant, me and the other TA, and the firm partner/practitioner — plus significant others to his beautiful Victorian house for a dinner party. Oh man, if there’s any way to go through law [...]
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A New Use for Dry-Erase
A friend of mine has two giant dry-erase boards on one of her living room walls. I’ve seen her plan out briefs and memos for Legal Research and Writing on them, and around finals time they get covered in complicated graphs and charts of things like Supreme Court precedent. But last weekend, our entire group [...]
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Trivia and Karaoke
Every Wednesday night, a local bar called Tommy Doyle’s hosts trivia night followed by karaoke. There are prizes for first, second, and third place but I don’t think anyone cares too much about getting gift certificates for the bar. Last year a group of people from my section started going regularly and inviting others in [...]
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Gold Coins
When I first visited HLS, I remember being shocked at how pretty the view of the Charles River was during the T-ride to campus. I was a late admit, so my first visit came in the middle of August. The sunlight bounced off the water, the boats dotted the area around the harbor, and all the [...]