A fellow law school mom has posted some advice for other parents on their way to law school. Mother In Law is a part-time student somewhere in the middle of the country - as opposed to my full-time-ness. She is a 1L, as opposed to my 2L-ness.

Mother In Law is much more organized than I am, and I think she does a heck of a lot more cooking!! I also remain totally skeeved by the idea of cutting a book. yikes!! I will admit to the huge burden of carrying all that stuff to and from school - at one point, i thought that law school had started to induce heart failure, when in fact, i had just seriously pulled a shoulder muscle. But right now, I'm trying an experiment of leaving the laptop at home, and it's going pretty well, so I think I'd condone that practice before I'd consider hurting my babies. I mean, cutting my books. (same thing, right?)

I had posted on how I manage to study and be a mom here.

posted by Zuska @ 11:50 PM

2 Comments:

At Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:43:00 PM, ES said…

I honestly believe that I would be horrified to cut a book that I was actually going to use or read again. However, I will not ever use or read my law books again, mostly because they are unwieldy, out of date, and not updated with current cases, and so I never once felt bad about cutting a book to save my health and back. I have no plans on displaying my first year Torts book proudly on my office shelf (or anywhere), so it doesn't matter to me if it's intact...although I have many friends who keep their books for that exact reason. Everyone can do their own thing, but I seriously never feel bad about cutting law books...I don't think of them as "real" books.
At Friday, April 14, 2006 1:02:00 AM, Mieke said…

It hurts my heart to think about cutting books. I don't know that I could do it.