August 01, 2004
Welcome!
And so there were many in the land who wandered the vasty deep of the internet, the dusty shelves of the bookstores, and the random chance of the man-on-the-street, seeking always the keys to success in law school and to beginning a career in the law. And the resources sprang up all around to help them, and they were drowning in suggestions and dos and don'ts and if-this-happens-you-will-fails. Yet still they came, always searching for more secrets, tips, anecdotes with lessons embedded, and more, more more. They consumed them all greedily, and their search did not abate.
Meanwhile, the good people of blawgland were busily being law students, professors, legal practitioners, going about their lives humbly but with courage and honor, and all the while writing about every little bit of it. Sometimes the good people of blawgland bitched and moaned at the challenges and travails of their endeavors, and at other times they rejoiced triumphantly at some great success, but all the while they learned, and about that which they leaned, they wrote. And in their writing, scattered here and there throughout the hundreds and thousands of pages and millions of words and gazillions of virtual miles of blawgland—there, in that happy yet chaotic place were found the secrets of their success, random posts here and there containing the distilled wisdom of experience as a gift to all the world.
And on came the hungry hordes, thirsting for tips, advice, knowledge of experience, and they poured into blawgland in droves searching for the very best, the brightest, the most useful bits of information to help them advance just a few more steps in their journeys toward some future in legal practice. And they strove and they labored to find all the good stuff, they clicked and they read and they searched and they commented, but oh how they longed for one central resource, one paradise of pithy perspicaciousness. Where was this wonderful place, the one-stop-shop for the gathered wisdom of all those in blawgland who had passed this way before and learned so much in the passing? Would they wander forever in search of the best of the brightest in blawgland, finding the good advice one day, but missing it the next? Were they doomed to search and search, through every one of their favorite sites to cull from them the clear advice that was meant for them to find?
That is up to you, my friends. Welcome to Blawg Wisdom, advice about law school from those who are in it. Use it wisely, use it well, use it often, and it will grow and become the resource you sought, so that others will need seek no more.
Posted by mowabb at August 1, 2004 04:14 PM
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Sweet, Ambib, very sweet! Thanks.
Posted by: Denise at August 6, 2004 11:18 PM