New Student Orientation

I served as a small group leader at orientation today. It is a cinematic conclusion to my first 12 months (53 weeks, to be exact) in law school to now be the experienced student called to answer questions at orientation when a year ago I was the new student asking them. I started by sharing the advice a friend of mine suggested: Go buy a Wii and Mario Kart.

That seemed to break the ice a bit, and I did tell them that was obviously bad advice (not that it wasn't immediately apparent, but just in case). I did my best to answer their questions, and I hope it will be helpful to them. They've scaled down orientation from a year ago, so I'll have to see if I hear anything about how prepared this group is. It occurs to me now that maybe I should've told them about the Supreme Court of New York...

[edit: The friend who suggested that advice has now jokingly taken issue with my characterization of it. I'm not saying it's obviously bad advice to buy a Wii and Mario Kart inherently, just that it's obviously bad advice for starting law school students to do so.]