A time for class, a time for grief: Dealing with loss in law school

It was the first week of October 2016. I had just finished my first two months of law school and was finally starting to feel like I was getting the hang of things. One afternoon I was in the library, and I realized I hadn’t talked to my mom all day. When I called my house earlier no one answered, which was odd because my father was always home due to medical conditions, so he almost always answered the phone unless he was asleep. I tried the home phone again, thinking it would be a better time as it was now late afternoon – still no answer. I tried my mom’s work and cell phone with again, no answer. I brushed it off as poor timing again and went back to work. We have terrible cell service in the library but an hour and a half later, I saw a text pop up from my mom that said, “Hi honey, are you busy right now?” I immediately knew something was wrong, so I stepped outside to make the call. It sounds cliché, and that’s because it…

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