Dear All,
This is your first taste of the study of law and you will, understandably, be both uncertain at what lies ahead and (hopefully) excited by the prospect of engaging with a fascinating subject.
There are times when it will seem hard, almost too hard. But wouldn't there be something wrong if the discipline that regulates conduct between individuals, and between individuals and the state, was easy? John F Kennedy put in better than I can when he was describing why the US wanted to put someone on the moon:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too"
I hope that when you begin to flag and are wondering why you are bothering, you can gain some inspiration from the fact that you are undertaking the study of something that, although difficult, is worthy of your best efforts.
-Mark Lunney
This is your first taste of the study of law and you will, understandably, be both uncertain at what lies ahead and (hopefully) excited by the prospect of engaging with a fascinating subject.
There are times when it will seem hard, almost too hard. But wouldn't there be something wrong if the discipline that regulates conduct between individuals, and between individuals and the state, was easy? John F Kennedy put in better than I can when he was describing why the US wanted to put someone on the moon:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too"
I hope that when you begin to flag and are wondering why you are bothering, you can gain some inspiration from the fact that you are undertaking the study of something that, although difficult, is worthy of your best efforts.
-Mark Lunney
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