Student Blogs: 1st Year

Before I get to all the hoopla
and hullabaloo of introductions, I want to thank the Admissions Office for
giving me the opportunity to share my experiences while in law school. I can’t
help but think that this is a very foolish move on their part, but I am
grateful. Anyhow, letÔøΩs continue.

My name is Aaron Baker. I was born
late on the night of March 20th, in the year 1984. The weather that night was
unseasonably cold and my mother;ok, maybe I should start with a more
contemporary set of events.

I am in the second semester of my
first year at Widener University School of Law, in Wilmington, Delaware,
and have been asked to write a blog about my experiences. Prior to law school,
I attended the University of Delaware for four years, and received a B.A.
in Political Science as part of the class of 2006.

I can’t say that I’ve always
wanted to be a lawyer. Law school was always an option but, then again, so was
being a dentist. I can’t even tell you the exact moment that I decided law
school was going to be a serious option, but I think it was sometime during my
freshman year of undergrad. I started undergrad without declaring a major, and I
spent my first semester in limbo between engineering and political science.
Well, the “truth” about chemistry and calculus made the decision quite simple;
I became a political science major. So, after studying government, political
philosophy, and public policy, I started to think law school was the way to go.
The thing, though, that really sealed the deal for me was a fortune cookie that
put into print what my mother had been telling me for years, “[y]ou’d make a
good lawyer.” If there is one thing I learned early in my life, it is that you
don’t argue with fortune cookies; therefore, I’m in law school.

This blog will cover my
experiences from law school application up until the University shuts me down
(at which point, I will go underground using bootleg electronics and a van like
those guys that helped Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man). I’ll try to tell you what I did and then what I
would do differently. Initially, we will be traveling at a light speed pace to
cover the last year of my life, and, luckily for you, I will have the gift of
hindsight to filter out most of the unnecessary freak out moments. Don’t worry
though, I was born with weak foresight; once I catch up to the present, youÔøΩll
get to see how much I freak out and then later realize it was all for naught.

I plan on being painfully honest
about the last year and the events I experience in the future. However, one
needs to keep in mind that law school is a labyrinthine affair, and no two
students experience it the same way. I hope that my experiences will be a help
to you, even if Widener isn’t where you choose to begin your legal career.

Before I go, I want to just throw
out a few things about myself, as a writer. I like to use puns. I like quotes. I
like to use analogies. I have a dry sense of humor that is, even in person,
sometimes excruciatingly “Dad-ish,” and is even worse when I try to pull it off
in writing. I have opinions, but I usually try to back them up with facts or,
at least, coherent arguments for them. I will also try to do my best to provide
alternative courses of action, but if you feel that I’ve left something out, I
hope that you’ll tell me about it. I like puns.

Godspeed.

Feel free to ask questions by emailing aaronsblog@mail.widener.edu or clicking the discuss link.