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It ain’t over ’til it’s over…

October 25th, 2007 Shobe_ceo

Finals is almost done…except for one paper and defense left for thurs…but ‘exams’ is generally over…but i don’t know what exactly to feel about the recent series of exams…maybe i am still stunned with what happened. Things happened so fast and i don’t know if it was ‘fast good’ or ‘fast bad’. heheh…

I’m slowly getting the hang of law school…the world of uncertainty…im coming to realize that law school is indeed a perfect example of the application of everything in philosophy that Loyola school taught its students.

In philosophy, i learned about ‘MERON’, which means plain existence.
‘Ang pagmemeron ng tao na basta na lamang nandyan…pero ano ang meron? Meron bang wala sa meron? Meron bang wala? O maging ang wala ay meron?’ This is where the first discussion on philosophy classes normally revolve…’ANO ANG MERON?’

At the end of it all, after a very thoughtful and almost crazy thinking, it would turn out that the question is simply wrong…because we cannot quantify nor qualify mere existence with the question ‘what’ or ‘ANO?’. That’s how crazy law school is, as it turns out to me…we are made to think things not just out of the box or the books…but even out of this world…but i guess that is what truly makes a good lawyer…being able to anticipate all kinds of attacks. But im telling you, its no joke! We are made to read a pile of readings reaching to one’s waist…to be asked one question regarding an exact phrase from among all those readings…what the heck right? imagine, from all those readings…teachers expect us to remember one single phrase, ‘verbatim’. Duh! But that’s life of law…we have no choice but to strive harder and try to grab all knowledge we can, hoping that the next question would be covered with up to where our studying managed to cover.

This may seem like an exaggeration but this is exactly what we, or at least I, experienced. One sentiment I have is that it is ok for me to read such pile of readings if the question to be asked is at least within the readings. But the sad part is that, sometimes, even though you were successful in reading all the required documents, the question would still not be found there. Or it still needs processing before you can get to the answer…law school requires not only knowledge, but wisdom and understanding… of ALL the matters required…meaning everything in the world. hahaha!

Learning doesn’t stop inside the classroom or the law school. It is only the beginning and is without end…just like ‘MERON’ in philosophy. One must grab all opportunities to learn something new, may it be about things not necessarily connected with law, since law school is about the study of life and living. How people evolve, how they (must) relate to each other, and everything else related to life or living. At the end of it all, the recent finals is not yet final but just the first among the unending series of tests which a law student must take to become a lawyer and will continue until forever, while we are still sane.

I realize that the path I chose to take is no joke…and I am willing to take up the extra-mile, if God permits me…

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