Profs Say the Darnedest Things

          Today, the Richard Currie Centre (UNB’s gym) hosted fall convocation. From the third floor, overlooking the parking lot, while exercising on the elliptical, I watched as well-dressed graduates and families trickled in; many with cameras and flowers in tow.

          Since the start of school, my professors have been peppering their lectures with advice on how to survive law school in pursuit of our own graduation in 2016. Here are just a few.

“Failing law school is very unusual. You have to really work at it.”

“By throwing yourself into the deep end, you will learn to swim.”

“Everybody breaks the law. Everybody. 

Everybody in this room has broken the law. 

I broke the law this morning!”

“If you want to Google your way to graduation, that is up to you.”

“Law school can be very disorienting at first. 

It is like learning ten words of German and it’s like we plop you in Germany and say ‘Go for it!’”

“Dante had a guide to get though the inferno: Virgil. 

I am your Virgil."

“You need to be prepared for this. 

Lawyers hit on ambiguous words like a hammer and just hit on them and hit on them until you just want to cry and go to bed and watch video games. Not even play them, just watch them.”

          Upper year students with announcements in class also say the darnedest things…

“Be yourself. Don’t be weird. 

There are enough weirdoes around this place already so let’s not double up.”

          And my classmates brave enough to ask a question can throw down some rippers.

“So, what’s the deal with the chief justice?”

* I have opted not to attribute remarks to anyone specifically as I’m still not certain of laws around libel and I'm exercising caution since based on 8 weeks of law school, I'm pretty sure they'd sting hard! We haven’t yet covered blog law.