It's been a good day.
There are certain days that just feel right. Where everything works out for you. Today was one of those days.
It didn't start off perfect. I've ended up on Moscow time because I wound up going to bed at 5 pm and waking up at midnight. After a full nights sleep, I couldn't go back to bed and I did have work to do for school so I just started my day, although many, many hours earlier than I otherwise would.
I got through all my work with ease. I baked throughout the early hours which provided me with well-timed breaks from my work, as well as food to keep me going through the day.
My morning classes started with Criminal Law. While most of the class was dead to the world (and that was the people who showed up, many people weren't even there), I was on top of everything and was non-stop productive. But what made the day so good was what happened in my afternoon torts class.
We were going over a case, General Electric v. Joiner. The topic of the class was expert testimony. What was strange about the case, though, was that the case involved a plaintiff claiming working with polychlorinated biphenyls resulting in his developing small cell carcinoma. The plaintiff even had expert testimony to verify the validity of his claim.
Except that any scientist or medical expert with any knowledge of the topic would ever make a statement like that. It's patently absurd. Which I said in class.
"What's make you so sure about that?" my professor asked.
"I'm an ACS-certified biochemist and a molecular biologist with a specialty in molecular mechanisms of disease," was my reply.
The next twenty minutes passed by in a shot, as the professor and I went back and forth on the science and law involved in the case. While proclaiming one's expertise in a subject during class normally results in mass eye-rolling by the other students (which I do as well), this was apparently something my classmates thought was "amazingly cool" as one very cute classmate of mine said afterwards. The professor, who normally struggles with students names 3 minutes after calling on them, talked to me later in the afternoon about working on an upper level environmental law clinical, something that is just about impossible for a first year law student to get into.
For a day with a very abnormal start, it worked out to be a good day for me. It's quite motivational actually, which is very good as crunch time is coming up soon and I need all the motivation I can get.
I need more days like today but maybe it's their rarity that makes them so worthwhile. EIther way, I'm glad for today.
It didn't start off perfect. I've ended up on Moscow time because I wound up going to bed at 5 pm and waking up at midnight. After a full nights sleep, I couldn't go back to bed and I did have work to do for school so I just started my day, although many, many hours earlier than I otherwise would.
I got through all my work with ease. I baked throughout the early hours which provided me with well-timed breaks from my work, as well as food to keep me going through the day.
My morning classes started with Criminal Law. While most of the class was dead to the world (and that was the people who showed up, many people weren't even there), I was on top of everything and was non-stop productive. But what made the day so good was what happened in my afternoon torts class.
We were going over a case, General Electric v. Joiner. The topic of the class was expert testimony. What was strange about the case, though, was that the case involved a plaintiff claiming working with polychlorinated biphenyls resulting in his developing small cell carcinoma. The plaintiff even had expert testimony to verify the validity of his claim.
Except that any scientist or medical expert with any knowledge of the topic would ever make a statement like that. It's patently absurd. Which I said in class.
"What's make you so sure about that?" my professor asked.
"I'm an ACS-certified biochemist and a molecular biologist with a specialty in molecular mechanisms of disease," was my reply.
The next twenty minutes passed by in a shot, as the professor and I went back and forth on the science and law involved in the case. While proclaiming one's expertise in a subject during class normally results in mass eye-rolling by the other students (which I do as well), this was apparently something my classmates thought was "amazingly cool" as one very cute classmate of mine said afterwards. The professor, who normally struggles with students names 3 minutes after calling on them, talked to me later in the afternoon about working on an upper level environmental law clinical, something that is just about impossible for a first year law student to get into.
For a day with a very abnormal start, it worked out to be a good day for me. It's quite motivational actually, which is very good as crunch time is coming up soon and I need all the motivation I can get.
I need more days like today but maybe it's their rarity that makes them so worthwhile. EIther way, I'm glad for today.