"Lunch with Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Tuesday" or "Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to visit Campus": My mailbox is getting crowded with such announcements. It seems that each and every celebrity of the law world wants to meet with us students. Last Tuesday, it was "only" one of the professors speaking at noon, but: there was free pizza! We were told that a student will be able to eat for free most of the days because of the many speeches and talks.
The fall quarter (the University of Chicago does not have semesters) started a good two weeks ago and most of international LLM students have settled in for the nine weeks. My courses for this quarter are Federal Regulation of Securities, Business Organizations and Public Choice. Yes, only three classes. And yes, I have no classes on Tuesdays, Thursday afternoons and Fridays. But there is still enough work to do. All professors expect that students come fully prepared to class. This usually means reading anywhere between 20 and 100 pages in the course's book. Professors use the "socratic method", i.e. not lecturing their students, but calling on students for developing the subject in class. In one of my classes we also have a "Lab", for which we have to do a group assignment each week.
Everyone is therefore quite busy with his or her courses. But there is still enough time to socialize, be it in the Green Lounge, in the library or at one of the countless events that are taking place in the law school or in the university. The campus is huge and about 15'000 students are currently enrolled. Some of the houses on campus definitively look as if from a Harry Potter movie! From home, it takes me about 45 minutes to get to the law school, but most of the times I meet fellow LLM students on the train. So, up to now, student life here in Chicago is even better than expected!
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