Penn Law Class Visit-- Day 4

So this was my final day visiting Penn.

The previously scheduled Intellectual Property class was cancelled. A lady from the admission office then took me to the Privacy class. It was a 1L selective, so with fewer students and smaller classroom.

The class was about DA investigation techniques in a particular case vs. privacy and FOIA vs. privacy. It was confusing, but sounded interesting. The teacher was a double-minority—a female African-American. Interestingly, she wore a black cheongsam and a white blouse in traditional Chinese style. A white woman came to the class along with her, sat in the front of the classroom and cut in sometimes while the class was going. The teacher’s words indicated that some lecturers were invited to the class once a while. It looked like a great idea to me.

Later I realize that my confusion did not wholly result in my lack of background knowledge. It is also partly due to my listening. The students who raised and answered questions all spoke in their normal speed and voice. The teacher had no problem getting them, while I could hardly make out the specific words they said. This reality got my nerves.

I was sitting beside a girl. I asked if she enjoyed law school. She said, “Sometimes.”

I told her I was making my final decision on whether going to law school, she said, “It is a tough decision. You have a lot of work to do. It is no fun.” Saying that, she showed me how fat her institutional law case book was.

Then I said it seemed that every law student had a big and heavy bag. She said, well, not in the second and third year. I guessed every 1L was looking forward to becoming a 2L.

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Picked up three books in a used book store on the way back home. One is Mrs. Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf. I once read an excerpt of it in an English literature class. On the flight to the States two years ago, bored to death, I watched the Hours times more than I watched my favorite the Brave Heart. This afternoon, I will relax and read the book inspiring the movie.