I know it's been over a month since I last posted something but there hasn't been much going on to post as often as I'd like. However, a lot of excitement took place last weekend....and Ross was the one with all the excitement. So since it has been awhile let me recap what Ross has been busy doing with school this past semester. In addition to his regular classes, he is a member of Trial Advocacy (like moot court) and Law Review (kind of like a school newspaper but is public).
And now for a quick summary of what Trial Advocacy is. It's a group of students that argue a case in a competition against other schools. To be part of this group the students had to try out. Unfortunately not all the students that are on Trial Ad get to compete but they still get school credit for being apart of it. Ross did not make the competing team but was considered a "shadow" so he still had to be apart of the "training" sessions/meetings to get school credit. These meetings were held on the weekends for about 6-8 hours each day. Last weekend was the competition and even though Ross wasn't competing, he still wanted to attend to support the school and see what it's all about. One of the big surprises that happened at this competition was that Ross and two other "shadows" got to actually compete because there wasn't enough teams due to some schools dropping out. So Ross got to experience what it was like to prepare and argue an entire case! Just confirmed for him how much he really enjoys this and can't wait to be done with school.
Another exciting thing that happened (again for Ross) was his new position on Law Review. There are a variety of positions that make up Law Review and this past semester Ross was one of the Site Checkers. He would review articles to make sure the sites that are used as support in the article are correct. A few weeks ago they held try outs for the other positions that are currently held by 3rd year students. So Ross tried out and got the position of Executive Editor. It's the second highest position on the board and he will oversee and mange 3 articles. Basically the site checkers come to him whenever they have problems or questions and he reviews all the articles after the site checkers do their part. Just one more thing to add to his resume of achievements.
And to sum up the excitement of everything that took place these past few weeks, Ross found out that his class ranking changed from 8th to 5th. He is in the top 3% of his class! Oh, and he also had 5 interviews for an externship position this summer. We are still waiting to hear back as to where he will be "working" this summer but he feels like all his interview went really well.
Not much excitement going on with me except that I get Ross back on the weekends now that he is done with Trial Advocacy. Work is still work and I get to take a week vacation in two weeks to spend Spring Break with Ross!
