6.11.2004
My years have formal education have come to conclusion. Yesterday, my family and I spent a long day at Harvard, full of remembrances and pomp. The Harvard Commencement website has all the details of the University-wide ceremonies, and the Law School will post the webcast of our events later this month. Kofi Annan's afternoon address was important and eloquent, and over in the lobby of Hauser Hall at the Law School, I enjoyed the reconstitution, in full hooded academic regalia, of my first-year section. But at the end of the day, I have graduated from Harvard Law School, with a "Juris Doctor cum laude." I owe my survival at the law school, despite my commute, to my family - both immediate and extended, my friends on the Board of Student Advisers, those 1Ls who spent their first-year workshop with me, the small but growing environmental law community, and those several professors who made the journey both intellectually challenging and rewarding.
Review for the bar exam has already begun and will continue apace for the next six weeks. Now, all the legal issues that were mulled and analyzed in the relative luxury of the academic year must be synthesized, condensed, and simplified for memorization, as "black letter" rules of law. I will then endure the two day exam, somehow to be administered at the World Trade Center in Boston during the Democratic convention. Amid my studying, I hope to enjoy some homey moments of relative calm and whatever summer weather New England decides to throw our way.
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