Author Archives: Socal Moslem

Mr. Miyagi- Wax it all off

I was working on writing my reflection on the past ten years of life in a post-9/11 world reality.  This entire week is devoted to all sorts of memorials and special segments on T.V. regarding all the emotions and information surrounding 9/11.  Rightly its an immense historical event, its shaped this country and fundamentally changedContinue reading “Mr. Miyagi- Wax it all off”

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C.A. Esquire- The Most Important Weapon in Your Law School Arsenal

Its my third week of law school now.  I have ditched my comfortable apartment, along with the local coffee shop and am taking up permanent residence in the dreaded library.  It’s disturbing because it’s so quite here. Anyway, there is so much to share from the past two weeks have been an immense learning curveContinue reading “C.A. Esquire- The Most Important Weapon in Your Law School Arsenal”

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C.A. Esquire- Lessons for a Smooth Transition to Law School

Law school, if you haven’t already heard or realized, is not like other experiences.  The honeymoon is very short lived.  Having finished my first week of classes, all I have to say is that I am worried about sustaining this pace of work, the demand is not anything I have experienced so far (…and thisContinue reading “C.A. Esquire- Lessons for a Smooth Transition to Law School”

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Day 20- We Still Hungry!

A Mothers Kiss Halima Hassan holds her severely malnourished 7-month-old son, Abdulrahman Abshir, at the Banadir hospital on Aug. 14 in Mogadishu, Somalia.  Pic courtesy: MSNBC Famine.  Defined as “extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area” and “extreme hunger or starvation” Every wonder what it means toContinue reading “Day 20- We Still Hungry!”

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Day 19- Ready Set Carpe-Laylatul-Qader

We are in the final stretch now, the precipice of attaining a lifetimes worth of amazing reward or washing out.  Can you handle the pressure?  Its immense and I know from past experiences when Ramandan hasn’t gone by all that well- lots of failure, lots of struggle, total lack of commitment the last ten days seemContinue reading “Day 19- Ready Set Carpe-Laylatul-Qader”

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Day 18- Chronicles of An Aspiring Esquire- Orientation Week

So now that I got a name for my posts on law school experiences, its only proper to start the reflections for Ramadan with one that incorporates my experience with school thus far.  All week I have been at Law School Orientation (LSO). LSO has been intense, not the content of the workshops, but rather becauseContinue reading “Day 18- Chronicles of An Aspiring Esquire- Orientation Week”

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Day 17-Laughing All the Way to the Hell

I spend a lot of my time laughing.  I approach life with laughter.  When I am faced with a very tricky situation I find ways to joke around about it, even if its painful to make light of the situation.  I often times feel thats the only way to address the circumstances, it will beContinue reading “Day 17-Laughing All the Way to the Hell”

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Day 16- Gaining Weight?

If you are fasting you should be losing some of that weight.  You might even be getting excited like me about losing it.  Sadly though, I realized that its all water weight and what I call “a-blotation” the fact that you are not eating as regularly your body isn’t producing all those gases in yourContinue reading “Day 16- Gaining Weight?”

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