Game Over

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks.  Not that teachers at Vanderbilt give dirty looks.  Well, not after 1L year anyway.

Graduation is less than two weeks away.  I can hardly believe it.  Yesterday, I turned in my seminar paper; the last bit of law school I had left.  I had two finals and took them on Monday and Wednesday this week.  That’s it.

I’m excited about what’s next.  (California here I come, ri-ght ba-ck wh-ere… oh, I guess not…)  I’m also rather sad. I’ve quite enjoyed law school.  (Finally, something where Daddy was wrong!)  And I’m going to miss my friends, well, the ones I don’t miss already.  I’m really going to miss sitting in the hall outside of Bartholomew, or on Main Street, talking copyright with my classmates, debating the meaning of ‘derivative’ or if fair use still exists in practice.  At least I’ll still have Mr. Trizzle to talk to about that stuff sometimes.

I’m also going to miss being around so many smart people all the time.  I’ve got a great job for this summer, sure to be full of smart people.  But, what about after that?  I think my biggest fear is to ever be the smartest person in a room.  What can you learn from that?  My role has always been the dumb kid in the smart people’s classes.  The one who’s not afraid to ask silly questions because everyone already knows she doesn’t get it.  The one who has to stay in from study hall to keep up, yet never falls too far behind.  What do I do if that’s suddenly not me?!

I’m going to miss Vanderbilt.  It’s a wonderful place.  If I have any complaints, it is only that Southerners don’t know how to regulate building temperatures.  That’s it.  Everything else about Vandy, wonderful.  Well, at least Vandy Law.  As a law student, it’s easy to escape from the swarms of Uggs pulling around girls in short dresses with swooped over bangs should you venture too far onto the main campus.  Ok, ok, there’s some of those in the Law school, too – but I was able to hide from most of that this year, sticking to my tiny IP classes.

I have a few more weeks left in Nashville and with my friends, so I won’t start ‘missing’ them yet.  Soon… soon…