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The Legal Brief: The Class of '91
Second Term Facts: OK, so they got off to a slow start, but did
that have to mean every professor had to assign 100 pages per day? The rainy weather in January began to match our moods. Christmas marks
had just come out and a lot of us were swallowing our egos. No way
could we even think about sneaking away to Whistler for a bit of skiing.
Thank-fully, we only had five classes this term since Legal Process was a
done deal. Oh, wait a minute, moot court.
As first year students we had the pleasure of presenting our first
appeal case in moot court. No one, if they are honest, really
understood what they were arguing or what the purpose of this exercise
was, other than to rob valuable study time and to discover your new
"friends" wanted to be adversaries instead. Of course, there were a
few of us who came to UBC specifically because you get three cracks at the
moot experience and, if that isn't enough, you could join one of the
competitive moot teams. Personally, I was just happy I didn't fall
down. I heard that was the only way you could fail.
Soon after Moots the smell of fear filled the halls and library.
Nothing like 100% finals to make a grown man or woman lose their
perspective on life. The only question I have is how did they
concentrate after emptying their stomachs like that? Bonding...
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