Day One

I was neither completely lost, nor absolutely bored in classes today. I only had two (although that was plenty). I attempted to brief the cases, but I have a feeling the practice will soon be abandoned. I got cold-called, without major embarrassment ensuing. And I discovered that everyone was right in warning me that a one-page case can take hours to understand properly. What law student on the first day of class is seriously expected to know what "trespass on the case" means, or how to explain the legal machinations behind complicated early-nineteenth-century-opinion language?