{"id":1203,"date":"2003-08-16T02:32:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T06:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/16\/another-semester-bites-the-dust\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T02:32:53","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T06:32:53","slug":"another-semester-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/another-semester-bites-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Semester Bites the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The end of a semester is always a bittersweet occasion.
\n The students are all bitter and the teacher is looking at six sweet weeks
\n of vacation! No, just joking. The Summer semester LLM Legal English program
\n I teach in ended this afternoon with a Champaign and cheese reception.
\n The students, lawyers all, looked more at home and at ease milling around
\n with
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I’ve been through this now like 75 times (three
\n semesters per year, you do the math) but every time I hand in the paperwork
\n and bid my students adieu, the experience of relief is an echo of that
\n marvelous June day each year of our youths when we knew we were leaving
\n school for the last time for a long time (maybe forever, a little voice
\n whispered), and an endless skein of summer days stretched out on the mental
\n horizon.<\/p>\n

As much as I love each group I work with, and I do come to empathize with
\n their struggles and successes, to vicariously live their triumphs and defeats,
\n as well as the wonder and raw awareness of holding your own in a foreign country in
\n a second language for the first time, it is a relief to be done. And as
\n much as I hope they all stay in touch and advise me of their progress,
\n I am sincerely glad I won’t be seeing them all every day now as I have for
\n the past six weeks.<\/p>\n

What’s on tap for the down time? Reading, blogging, a graphic redesign
\n of this site, trolling for paying work, home, car and body maintenance,
\n fishing,
\n tennis, cheap highbrow cultural ops, free lowbrow cultural ops, a few days
\n in NYC and Maine if I’m lucky. By the middle of September I’ll be primed
\n and ready for the next bunch.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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