Best Semester Ever: 2L Spring

Here’s an outline of my spring semester. A lot happened…

January: The semester starts.

February: Things get busy…and snowy.

March: Height of the semester.

April: The batshit-crazy begins.

May: Finals, breakups, and parties…

The day before

Stella and I are holed up at Starbucks studying for finals.Studying at Starbucks
My international tax law exam is self-scheduled. I may take it tomorrow. Possibly, maybe.

I will finish my outline for Wednesday’s corporate tax law exam tonight and see if I need more than one day to prepare. I think I just need to force myself to take these self-scheduled exams early lest I focus on too many irrelevant/obscure things. I think 80% of finals prep is a waste of time, so I am trying (desperately) to be more efficient.

…and crazy “reads aloud in foreign languages” hobo is here. He’s usually at the Purple Onion but decided to make a guest appearance at Starbucks to distract us. He was reading in Arabic, now he’s reading aloud in Italian, and we are pretty sure he doesn’t speak either language. I don’t know what’s going on, but after a few more hours in the treasury regulations I might start speaking in tongues too…

Oh, and Starbucks had “happy hour” today, which meant half-priced beverages and a line that stretched outside of the door for the better part of 2 hours:
starbucks happy hour
The undergrads couldn’t chase me down for snickering and taking their picture because they didn’t want to lose their place in line. Hah! This happy-hour promotion goes all week, so I will have a captive audience for when I snap and start reading tax regs aloud. Buhaha

MLS: Hanson Hall Starbucks

The law school building contains brilliant people, but has the aesthetic appeal of a leaky basement. This is why so many of us sneak over to the business school, which has windows and a full-service Starbucks. Behold:

Hanson Hall Starbucks

Usually the view is great, but today’s snowstorm makes the usual view of Downtown Minneapolis a little hard to see…

Hanson Hall Starbucks

Downtown is still there, somewhere, sort of... but the snowed-out view is still preferable to the dungeon law school building.

Hanson Hall Starbucks

Note: “My legal space” is a law school version of Kristy/Kootoyoo.com’s “My Creative Space” post series. The purpose of “My Legal Space” is to make law students more conscious about where they choose to study.