Cold Called

Today, I was cold called.

For an entire class hour.

The professor never called on anyone else.

It was a long class.

People afterward told me what a great job I did. They all said that I did well and was very funny. (Not really my goal in law school, to be funny, but maybe it's just a bonus? Who knows...) 

I felt like there were some awkward parts, some parts where the professor and I weren't using the same words as each other so there was some confusion, but I managed to even it out fairly quickly.

Anyway, I survived.

But at one point, after he asked me to evaluate a hypo he had presented and decide if it was the same as the cases we had been studying, I told him it wasn't. He asked me why, and I went through a quick set of things that I thought made it different, and why it didn't conform with the model we had just established. 

I ended this with words to the effect of, "It's not okay to kill people just because you think they might be about to die."

It's awkwardly stated, but I stand by that rule.

Everyone laughed pretty hard, including the professor. If nothing else, everyone but me really enjoyed that class today.