There will come the moment when you realize that the year
you have planed for so long draws to a close. Soon, way too soon.
The moment, which makes you realize this, when graduation
mails arrive. This is probably late February. February, when there are still
three month to go… I do not yet know how graduation will be, but judging all
the effort (and mails) which are put into this, it will be a highlight in the
LLM for sure.
There is so much to organize. And so many deadlines you can
miss. Taking a graduation photo (already taken). Renting a gown. Organizing
tickets. Voting for the class speaker – this is actually fun. Anyone can run
for it and is asked to prepare a two minute video to explain to the fellow classmates
why it should be him or her representing the class ’17 at graduation. All
videos were impressive as regards professionalism, rhetoric, skill and
creativity: some sang songs, some promised to rhyme the speech, some created
professional advertisement clips. And already then two month before graduation, the class speaker
is already announced. The keynote speaker is announced. The Graduate Legal Studies
Team invites the LLM class for get-togethers.
Graduation season has started. It
means that the LLM unfortunately will end soon. But it also means, it has not yet
ended. It is not too late, to tick of everything you have planed to do in New
York…
