Best Summer Ever Week 14: This is the end.

I am sprawled on the bathroom floor. Blood is everywhere.

The “no mess” mouse trap that I bought is in fact, very messy. Sure, I cannot see the dead mouse in the trap’s chamber, but the trap is swimming in a pool of blood.

The trap is strategically placed under my bath tub, so I have to crawl on the floor to wipe up the pool of stinky mouse blood. Ick.

Cleaning was the theme of the week. My apartment got the complete pre-semester scrub. I changed the vase water, washed sheets and clothes, and shampooed the carpets.

I also scrubbed my kitchen, replaced tiles, and finally hauled in the tumblers that collected in my trunk during the semester:

It took forever and I’m exhausted.

When I wasn’t cleaning the apartment, I was at the lake (or river) with the dogs, or at the Townhouse with twitter friends.

Summer also ended on Friday with the start of orientation leader training. Being an orientation leader is a lot of work, but I had a great orientation leader who got my 1L year off to a great start, and I hope I can be as helpful to a fresh batch of students.

I am also thrilled that the law school decided to make my “classroom etiquette session” a formal part of orientation. Last year a few orientation leaders gave an informal etiquette pep talk to the section we were in charge of, and I think the administration noticed that our section had fewer social issues than the others.

Most of what I hope to cover is here.

The theory behind the etiquette session is that very few people are intentionally gunners/anti-social douchecanoes, and you can prevent much of the unnecessary 1L social awkwardness by just making the social rules that are common-sense to most of us clear to everyone.

A few examples are:

• Interrupting other students or the professor during class.
• Bragging in its various forms.
• Monopolizing class time with obscure hypothetical questions.
• Bringing inappropriate, obnoxious, or stinky food to class.
• Snatching food at student organization meetings.
• Flaunting grades, rank, income, breasts, etc.
• Overly dramatic/depressing facebook updates.
• Bedding half your class.
• Constant tardiness.
• Playing video games/watching streaming video during class.
• Constantly being unprepared for class.
• Attacking other students online.
• Being rude to administration.
• How to respectfully disagree during class discussion.

And much more! We’ll see if the advice takes.

The best part about orientation leader training so far is the mini-golf:

Six or seven different offices in the school set up mini-golf courses for us. We had to answer questions about the office to win points, and the points correlated to the amount of strokes we got. The mini-golf challenge was a great way to learn about the different offices, and made me realize how many offices exist in the school that students have no reason to go to.

We have one more day of training and orientation kicks off 8am on Tuesday, and it will pretty much suck up my entire week (8am-4pm)

…and I’m working 30 hours at the office, some time…this will be interesting.