A weekend full of school work

So, for all of you at their enjoying your weekend of bliss and envious of my otherwise awesome life. Take this as food for thought. I have to write three law school papers this weekend including two 25-35 pagers and do all of the research for them. :( It's going to be a long weekend. But my goals are as follows:

Saturday:

Outline Privacy Paper and find 3 pages worth of research quotes

2nd draft of Astle paper and find 10-15 sources

1st draft of Memo for Kelsey's class

Finish all the reading for my Professional Responsibility Class

Sunday:

yeah we'll see how much of my Saturday goals I get through first. LOL

Holy HOT!

It is so hot in DC these days. Like so hot- over 100 degrees without humidity, it's SO HOT. But regardless I ventured outside for lunch. Here are a couple of photo's from where I ate lunch.

So this week has been pretty great. Work has been going well and Summer semester at school is way better than the regular semester partly because I only have 1 test though I have 4 classes. Also because my professors keep letting us out earlier than the end of class, which is pretty much awesome! YAY :)

Tonight I'm sitting in copyright class. I'm likely writing my final paper in this class about how because the court shut down Napster (which enabled people to "steal" ie. infringe copyright by setting up an index where their users could share information) then Google should be shut down as well. Dad doesn't share my view and regaled me with a battle to the end of how my generation just believes in stealing things and that I don't want Napster to be shut down (which is true). I don't believe a corporation should be guilty if someone uses their software to steal, so long as it has other uses which Napster and actually Google as well have.

Well I'll either write about that or about campaigns and copyrightable material. Shocking, I'm more interested in politics then the law of copyright. Later tonight I have "emerging law of the internet" which is pretty much a privacy class.

Tonight's lecture though on copyright is about this random advocacy group who believes that the first use doctrine should be applied to music and software, ie. after the first use the copyright holders rights are done anyway with- which they believe is the same as 2nd hand booksellers, or garage sales.

Guess I'll start paying attention again, it's tough though because it's just so hot.

Spring Semester

Well I've begun my second semester of my 1L year (that's what first year law students are called). It's going to be a tough one.

My classes include Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Legal Writing II, and Contracts. I go to school five days a week in the evening. It's long and hard, but it's also incredibly rewarding.

In case anyone wondered, we at George-Mason are the Patriots, because (you guessed it) George Mason was a patriot (and a founder).

Also this past week I got to meet TWO Supreme Court Justices. It was awesome! I met Justice Thomas and Alito, but unfortunately only got a picture with Justice Thomas. Pictures will follow.