Driving

One of the things you notice when you come to Charlottesville is that none of the roads keep the same name. Honestly people, how hard is it to have streets maintain the same names for the entire length of their run.

You’re driving along, minding your own business, and all of a sudden, Emmet Street turns into Seminole Trail. Now, this isn’t that bad, because this is a huge, straight street. But it’s a symptom of the disease.

Anywhere you go, there’s a possibility of the street changing names on you when you cross an intersection (or at random if it feels like it). Often, this is at one of those 5-road crossing, where there are 3 roads coming together, one dead ending, and the other two leaving. How’re you ever supposed to figure this out on the fly if you’re unfamiliar?

Also, hurray for designing your roads based around paths that wildlife took. Those grid pattern streets just make it too easy to find your way around and don’t let tourists get lost in experience the culture of your town

Summer

I kinda figured my summer heading into law school would be filled with some job related to the law. Yeah, that is definitely not what my summer has been.

I don't know how much this applies to the rest of you out there, but finding a job in a law firm is really difficult when you don't have any background with the law. I pumped a couple contacts and I got nothing back from the firms, not even a phone call or e-mail.

Now, this isn't necessarily bad. I've got a plethora of easy jobs this summer, I'm reading a ton, and I'm really looking forward to Virginia. It just seems weird to be doing all these things that have NOTHING to do with law school.