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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The Belated Reading Week Post Ah, the joys of being a Third Year law student. I have two serious classes (Remedies and Sales), an externship (five units), and a bar exam primer course (Basic Bar Studies). All of my classes ended yesterday, and the only thing I have left is a paper (18 pages on a topic that I can write a book on) and two finals. Despite the hard work, confusion, commute, frustration, getting back up to speed on summary judgment procedure, and having to take a significant amount of time out of my week to work the externship, I found it extremely rewarding working at the Court of Appeal. As for Basic Bar Studies, I felt it was a waste of time despite the fact that the professor is one of the best professors at my school. The class was more of a "here is a basic outline, here is an MBE book, do the reading on your own. When you come to class I'll give you a quiz and a bar exam question and that's it." The other problem was that the class was on a Saturday. This semester I had classes on Monday and Wednesdays, and the extern ship on Tuesday and Thursday. I tried to use Friday to prepare for Saturday, and by Sunday I was cramming for By Monday and Wednesday classes. It was not the best use of my time to say the least. Moreover, my remedies professor, shows about as much emotion in class as a toaster. I recently came across a post on the Law School Academic Support Blog mentioning the mindset of most third year law students. We're so busy trying to line up jobs in order to pay off our loans, prepare for the bar exam, make plans for graduation, and put our own lives in order to prevent total crash and burn by July. Most of us just want to pass, and have consigned ourselves to just doing the minimum required to get by. Every "One L" I have seen has had their nose buried in flashcards and outlines for the last week. Most of the Third Years I've seen have just buried their noises in canned outlines and briefs. I think I still need to finish my outlines out least. As for after finals, I've already made plans to get out of town the week between my last final and commencement as It will be the only week I'll have off between now and the Bar. One more thing, if you are a law student and you are reading this post, let me give you a word of advice, live at home with your family or significant other during your first and second year of law school, but move as far away as you can during your last year. Not a day goes by, where I am reminded about commencement, or asked about my plans for the Bar, or whether I've lined a job up for after graduation. Personally, I hate giving answers to questions I have not given a whole lot of thought to. I've been forced to take things one day at a time, and I've buried my calendar a long time ago. I'll probably have a post later today on Sales and Remedies, just to get it out of my system. W.
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