Last Day of 1L Class

Today was my last day of class... unbelievable. Doesn't feel like it, since we still have review sessions to attend and finals to take, but I'm sure it'll sink in soon.

Couple things that'll probably get lost on anyone outside our class, but I'd like to remember...

Last semester, a guy in my class presented our favorite professor (Civil Procedure) with an award on behalf of the class (although most of us didn't know about it). It was called the "International Shoe" Award, based off of a significant case in our course, and there was a little gold shoe on top. At the bottom, it said something along the lines of, "To Professor XX, for Best Subject Matter Jurisdiction." Cute. (cute because subject matter jurisdiction is one of the main topics in civ pro, but sounds right in that setting, too). Our professor, who is a rather quirky but stiff guy, looked like he was about to cry!! A collective aww...

Torts Professor Hearts the Shoulder Pad Jacket (in khaki colors)

So today, the same guy presented our favorite professor (Torts) of this semester with an award. It was more funny than touching. After doing a spot-on impersonation of our double-brested-shoulder-padded-jacket-wearing Torts professor ranting a lecture, he presented him with a trophy cup. There is another student in my class that always makes crazy long-winded hypotheticals in class. There was one "giving you a glass half-filled with water" hypo that especially made no sense to the rest of us. From then on, whenever he started on another crazy hypo, our professor would often go, "wait, this isn't the one where you give me a half-full glass of water is it?" So today, he joined the other guy and poured water half-full into the trophy cup before giving it to our professor. So funny :)

Our prof also showed us this video (as a last day treat?), which is only somewhat amusing but I love it when the guy getting deposed says, "... are you guys threatening to fight?"

"Joe Jamail in Tense Deposition"


... I just realized our two favorite profs both had... peculiar... style choices. The CivPro professor wore a bow tie everyday (someone dressed up as him for Halloween) and now the Torts professor loves the double button shoulder jacket.