Thank God for wifi and espresso...

The "coffee" available on campus is to real coffee what Bud Light is to lager (which is the light beer, ale is the dark beer [there's several differences between the two, but the most obvious two are color and taste]...anyone over 21 and under 30 ought to know the difference between the two and if you don't, you need to either get out more or start embracing the fact that you're a part of the Temperance movement [even if you were unaware of it until just now]). I've had green tea with more caffiene. However, when push comes to shove, you do what you must, which is why I am nursing a latte that was made well within the confines of this establishment.

A scarily true fact about law school is that any hope of getting a decent amount of sleep when you start out is an impossible dream. Napping, a frequent past time in undergrad, is what has replaced actual sleep in the evenings in my life, especially with a roommate who likes to "party hardy" (she's currently getting her masters in another program on campus and favorite pastimes consist of watching enormous amounts of tv late at night and early in the morning [especially music videos on CMT] and getting tanked at frat parties [because it's cheaper than getting tanked at a bar, her words, not mine], she has a manifest destiny attitude towards the room we share which I need to address, tout de suite), meaning that I only sleep in my bed when I am so exhausted to the point where nothing short of an atomic bomb would wake me up (so her wandering in at 3 am wasted doesn't have any effect on me). This means that I constantly find myself struggling to stay awake in class.

Wifi has enabled me to keep my brain active enough so that I'm able to not fall asleep in class. If it weren't for the mental and visual stimulation of things like the NY Times website or the Luxist blog (I've already mentally spent any future paychecks a hundred times over thanks to that blog), then I don't know how I'd be able to keep my brain alert in those early morning classes (one is at 8:30 am...delightful, non?). It's evolved into an art of multitasking for me. I can still follow along to what's being said by my professor while checking out Bebe's newest take on the Gothic Lolita. I have no problem being able to participate either. Ergo, I am flummoxed when professors are chagrined at the idea of people multitasking during class on their laptops. The temptation of the internet is only deadly when I'm attempting to do homework. I think that a scientific study should be done on it before professors become too cranky and adamant on the issue. The exception of one should not be used to create the rule for all. In other words, to quote "Bring It On," "Don't punish the squad for Big Red's mistake." If I wasn't surfing the internet during class, I'd probably be working on items for other classes, which is what I was doing in my Torts class yesterday (the only class that bans all laptops, ironic because the professor highly recommends that the exam be done on a laptop and he utilizes TWEN a great deal [the law school version of Blackboard]). Since I couldn't just whip out my laptop to check my email, I had a book in my lap for another class and read my assignment for that class while still taking notes for Torts and participating in the discussions that sprouted up among my classmates. Maybe I'm just weird, or maybe I really ought to just focus one one thing at a time and this multitasking will come to bite me in the ass. Time will tell. Speaking of time, I have to go and learn grammar rules soon (technically, I don't have to, but I will...better to be over-trained and over-educated than to not know what the hell you're doing).