1L CONFIDENT
By Patrick Malone

Foggy Bottom, August 10, 2003

According to Law Revue News sources, incoming first year student Sarah Dinwiddie is confident that she will be in the top 10% of her class at the end of her first year.

Ms. Dinwiddie, a native of Newport News, Virginia, spoke with the Law Revue during a recent apartment finding trip into the district. “It’s just that undergrad wasn’t that hard,” said Dinwiddie as she signed the lease to a $1,200 dollar a month studio apartment in Foggy Bottom. “I mean, I had to work super hard to get the grades I did, but I know that if I put in as many hours at law school, I’ll do really well.”

Dinwiddie graduated from Old Dominion University with a 3.85 G.P.A. in Applied Communications.

“My major really prepared me to come into the field of law,” continued the slightly overweight Virginian while eating a Lindy’s Double #11 w/ bacon. “Plus, all of my friends say I’m going to make a great lawyer because I love to argue!”

During her two year hiatus between college and law school, Dinwiddie spent the first nine months “finding [her]self” in Europe. “I just hope the boys at law school aren’t as immature as college guys,” Dinwiddie opined, “but I know there’s no chance they’ll be a great as European men. Boy am I spoiled!”

Dinwiddie spent the next 15 months working for Norfolk Communications in Norfolk. “I helped do the designs for all of the ads that ran on local [ABC Norfolk Affiliate] 12,” Dinwiddie reminisced. “I even did an add for a local trial attorney with the sound of a car crashing and everything. Man, am I going to have an inside track to the Law Journal Review.”

The Law Revue managed to contact Alexis French, Ms. Dinwiddie’s college roommate and second highest ranked student in the Applied Communications department at Old Dominion. “I guess Sarah’s book-learned,” French told us. Unfortunately our interview was interrupted when Ms. French’s manager at the 5th Street Color Wheel in Richmond began shouting at French because her “baby’s daddy kept callin [sic] on the damn work phone.”

Even though she has heard horror stories about law school, Dinwiddie remains optimistic. “I bought a book by this guy named Wheatbread. That should really help. Plus, 100 pages of reading a night is nothing. I read the last Harry Potter in 2 days and that’s totally, like, so 900 pages.”

Ms. Dinwiddie will be in Section 13.