Reflections on a certain law school prof

During law school, I absolutely loathed my evidence prof. Why? Easy. He sucked. His favorite answer was "you will understand after you are in practice and are dealing with it." Thanks jackass. So helpful.

Now I am out in the real world and today was confronted with an issue over admissibility of character evidence in a criminal case. Guess what? It still made no sense. Apparently, after studying evidence in law school and for the bar exam and having practiced for a big bad 3 months or so, I still haven't been in practice long enough to get it. And, this was on appeal, the trial lawyer already made all the objections. So clearly there was something fishy about what they were doing. But trying to make a comprehensible argument as to why the Rules of Evidence were violated was a bit beyond me. I wonder how much time out in the real world it will take for my prof's answer to make sense...something tells me it might just be forever.