People have been wrong about saying Ann Arbor is a college town as small as Cambridge (the English one).  Ann Arbor is even smaller in terms of functioning area!  It seemed quite a long way from lawyers club to a bookstore on the map, nearly one third of the length of the city, and it ended up taking me 5 minutes of walking.

Orientation activities have been quite intense but smooth, with some little surprises though.  First, I planned to open a bank account with citibank and found they have no branch in this city…. Second, there was another incoming student with exactly the same name with me (yes, same family name, same given name), and I had to go to two group registrations, just to find out which was mine.  (The other me also lives in the lawyers club.  Sigh, how will we tell received mails from each others’?) Third, the Property professor doesn’t allow laptops in his class, which may be or may not be a problem for me, as I don’t know how much better off I would be by taking notes on laptop.  I’ve never been a good note-taker, but it’s obviously time to become one.

The law school is such a beautiful setting.  Especially the library.  The feeling that I’ve come to a great place never became so strong before I stepped in the Reading Room.  I spend much time revising the essay tonight, and really enjoyed the feeling of studying in a harry potter chapel-like room with candle lights (electronictized in fact…) hanging high up. 

Btw, the food is fantastic!  Nice, cheap (compared to London) and a wide variety of restaurants, all within walking distance!

 It hasn’t been 50 hours, but I feel that I’ve fell in love with this place, already.