Wafer-thin Mints

My fellow blogger and I were discussing a shared dilemma at a local Waco dive bar: “I’m starting to feel like I don’t have anything interesting to say but my head is full of stuff. I’m starting to feel dull. I used to say stuff!”

Our conclusion was simple. We should just blog it out.

We aim to serve two purposes. First, before we came to Baylor Law School, we both stumbled on blogs maintained by students here. The more well-written blogs were wonderful glimpses into the atmosphere of a school, the kinds of students who come here, the quality of the education and maybe, most importantly, the nuances of the institution. Former BLS bloggers provided insights that went beyond promotional materials and were instrumental in at least my choice to invest 3 years at Baylor.

But we also have more personal goals. It often seems that as a 1L the student is required to digest a great deal more than mental capacity permits. Sometimes I find myself trying to maintain a tenuous grip on a series of convoluted UCC provisions and I feel like I might waste precious neurons thinking about a Judge Learned Hand joke (if you have heard of a joke involving Judge Learned Hand, please let me know). It can make one feel like Mr. Creosote from The Meaning of Life. Mr. Creosote is an obese man who simply can’t get enough of the fine food John Cleese keeps serving him. He loves it and keeps on gorging himself. He expands and grows fatter and then he’s offered that wafer-thin mint and well … you’ll just have to see the movie. That wafer-thin mint is the stuff that makes up life outside of casebooks and briefs and I’d like to do my best to make room for it.

 

So, with that, we will do our best to reserve enough time to write something here. For now, 8am torts awaits.

-WK