Law school at Vic U: month one

The Class of 2016 has survived the first month of our first year of law school.

It began with a fantastic Orientation Week jam-packed with activities. The days were filled with events to let us get to know our classmates and get a sense of what law school is like.  Using the beautiful Hart House quad as a starting point, there were events ranging from the insightful - lectures from faculty members and an Ontario Court of Appeal Justice - to the less serious and more fun - a scavenger hunt and laser tag!  It was a great week and a credit to the upper-year volunteers, faculty and staff who put it on.

But, alas, Orientation Week seems a distant memory now.

With a few weeks of class under our belt, we first years are making law school life at Victoria College our own.  There is a constant hum of chatter from the students’ lounge and a steady stream of students going to study in the reading room in Birge Carnegie. There are students taking advantage of the last throes of summer by catching up with friends and eating lunch on the stone wall between Emmanuel College and the Old Vic mansion. And, of course, you can always find classmates in the hallway outside the library checking their locker and making sure they have the right books for the next class.

I don’t know what life in Flavelle and Falconer is like, but it seems to me that our corner of Vic will be a great spot to develop the same bonds, friendships and sense of community that the upper-year students so clearly demonstrate. I am definitely looking forward to the next three years of law school!