Being a law school student means getting enlightened about various laws for a co ntinuous period of 5 yrs.

, from cases where an insect was found in Beer bottle t hat led to whole lot of hoopla regarding it and a resulting landmark case slappe d on students, to cases of breach of contract, to promissory estoppels. Furtherm ore, studying many confusing notions, encountering situations when you feel like murdering the professor to see whether its culpable homicide or murder while he is trying to make you understand the difference between the two! There is so mu ch more to it, sleepy classes of Procedural laws, complexities of Constitutional law, times when mind stops interpreting while reading Interpretation of Statues or the burden of Tax laws! Well, cant disagree that this only makes us a lawyer, because when we talk, inste ad of blaming someone for carelessness, we blame for negligence, things doesn t ha ppen itself but per se, people are not responsible for their conduct but liable. The trust is not broken but breached. We dont break the hostel rule but infringe them! W e dont notice something but take cognizance, we dont call people but summon them and people who think ill of us have mens rea against us! This is just to mention the few enhancements in vocabulary law school brings, ap art from that we get a great sense of empowerment, as we threaten any outsider w ho try to mess with us! When at home we threaten to sue almost everyone, from su ing the friend for assault while having a fight with him to suing sister under p romissory estoppel, thanks to our empowering profession! Not to forget we are not only empowered but we are also acquainted with many dig nitaries. Individuals like Seervai, P.N. Bhagwati, Kelkar, Mulla, Takwani, Hiday atullah etc etc. seems like next door neighbor, just a call away (well, thats act ually right, they are just waiting in for us library!!). Apart from that we have our amazing interpretive and analytical skill. While for an engineering student, selecting between blue or black will be an easy choice, for a lawyer it will start from the determination whether there is blue or blac k and then on what criteria can we select between blue or black, which doctrine to apply, which test to refer to and then finally, a lawyer will decide that it can be blue if it is not black or it is black subject to this and that condition s. Well, got confused? Exactly, this is what law school curriculum does to law s tudent and teaches them. There is a saying in this regard, If you cant convince th e judge, confuse him. Well as of now we have not reached the stage of confusing t he judge but its the opposite case, i.e. judgments like Mahabharata confusing us! But no doubt we have become adept in confusing any non-lawyer. While mentioning the special characteristic of law students, how can we forget t he academic insects we are, to start with, the projects, and plagiarism, the word that comes as a bonus package with it! Trust me, very few people from non legal field know its meaning, but poor us are subjected to its constant constrain. The students generally dont even make notes, but we even have to make footnotes in our project because we CANNOT plagiarize. The academic eulogizer we are, conference s, paper presentation, journals, we do all of these. The piles of books and sect ions of Act, so aptly characterize a law school student. On the first day of col lege, the vast journal section freaked me out, that time I didnt even know how, w hy and what of them! So, at the end, we bask in glory of our own story which is Greek and Latin to ev eryone apart from us! Crack lame legal jokes, freak out, and as law school makes us do, we work like ass and party like an animal (moral of the story is at end of the day, you are an animal, though a legal one!). Well, but I think that is w hat makes us special and different from the crowd, the empowering and entertaini ngly engaging nature of our profession.