re-oriented

Today was the first day of class, so I think I'll recap orientation instead.

If you pays the big bucks, or rather borrows the big bucks, it is likely that your school will put on a nice orientation for you. Mine lasted over half a week, yet at no point did it feel burdensome or like Too Much Orientation, even though a number of my classmates seemed to feel that way.

It was a pretty sweet schedule. The first day featured picking up the orientation packet and then hearing a welcome address from the dean. After the short address, subsections met in classrooms to begin a series of introductory classes that very generally followed the evolution of modern torts. These practice sessions were a great way to experience socratic method in a classroom without being subject to actually having to learn the material or worry about being tested on it by that professor in the future. I felt particularly privileged because my subsection drew the dean as my intro course professor. This wonderfully charismatic man really worked hard to energize students and draw them into the dialogue he was seeking to create.

Later that afternoon, all of the legal writing sections met with an experienced student who was there to answer questions outside of the earshot of professors and administrators. Again, I felt particularly special in that my section drew the Student Bar Association President and general BMOC as our student guide. He was well prepared for our questions and had a few items for us to think about as well.

Following that, the entire class of day and night students had a sit down dinner together. Each table had either Faculty or staff mixed in with the students. The dean, the student body president, the president of the college and the special speaker all gave nice inspirational speakers while we ate rubber chicken.

In the following days, we met several more times for introductory classes, both on the evolution of torts and in our legal writing mini-sections. For the amount of time dedicated I thought that it was an well paced program that well achieved its goal of introducing a different method for processing the information we will be receiving in our classes.

I think I should write to the dean and let him know.