Three things I learned from law school

1. I am not the most intelligent person in the world, or in our class, for that matter. And worse, I'm not even the second best. I had some inkling about this when Jessie Ceniza tied with me for top place of our class back in our college days and Sherlenie Tecson of Cebu Normal University caused me to wonder why I was not able to see the brilliant proofs during our topology classes at UP Cebu, but hey, Jessie and Sherlenie were just one of my classmates in those classes. It's simply different when you have a classmate ahead of you and when almost every one in the class is ahead of you. So now the Jessies and Sherlenies are the Merachelles, Junjies, Kara Maes, Hyacinths, Ronalds, Yassers, and Camelles. (Did I miss any one? I sure hope I did - there are just too many of you. Come now, get off my head :))

2. No matter how you hard I study, there will always be better students than me. They don't study as much as me, they don't lose sleep over assignments, (and worse, they don't have to go to work and deal with students who have problems understanding their lessons), but they still get better scores than me in the test. In other words, they are just more intelligent than me. (Hey, isn't that number 1 above?)

3. (in the 3rd person now) No matter how you think your answer was much better than that of the other guy (or gal, or gay), the teacher has a different idea. And the teacher grades your answers, not you. Do you understand that now, islesv? (Sure I do: I force my students to understand the same exact thing every day of my working life.)