I first want to express my sincerest gratitude for the opportunity to appear on the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog.   I have been a long time reader of the Faculty Blog, and what was true when I first started reading this blog continues to be true now: I have thoroughly enjoyed the quality of content posted here on a regular basis.  We have Alan Borsuk’s timely pieces on public education.  We can watch the fireworks as Professors Esenberg and Fallone debate.  And Dean O’Hear’s posts flag for us new and forthcoming scholarship by members of the Marquette community (to say nothing of his posts tracking cutting edge developments in federal criminal law).  In short, this blog has gotten it right.

Some law blogs, however, are not quite so lucky.  In fact, one trend in law blogs that has garnered nationwide attention this year is an example of blogging gone wrong.  That trend is called “scam blogging.”

Here is an account of how the scam blogging movement came to be. 

As the month is now halfway gone, I offer these thoughts in an attempt to fulfill my guest-blogging obligations and hopefully to hear how others feel their experience within legal academia has shaped their perception of the world.  To be completely honest, I have struggled to think of a topic to write about, but I believe this topic is fitting as the end of the 2010-2011 year was not that long ago, and many of us find ourselves trying to figure out exactly what impact the previous academic year has had on the way we interact with the world around us.

For me, this is a difficult topic to explain because at this moment I am only able to recognize that I am a dramatically different person.  I cannot articulate exactly how this past year has changed my perception and sense of self.  To put things in perspective, and hopefully explain better what I am referring to, I think it is easiest to move back first to high school and college.