Started Law School Proper
Well, I started regular law school classes yesterday. As of today I have met all my professors, and they all seem like pretty good people. They all expect a lot out of me, but that's just the nature of law school in general, and I can't fault them for that. Our school has a strict grading curve, so my work will be judged on the work of others. I don't like grading curves because it's possible that I can write the third greatest work known to mankind and still end up third in class if two other people by pure coincidence happen to write numbers 1 and 2. I can write a perfectly good, well-reasoned, cogent exam, and still screw up. I don't like that, but I have no other choice than to deal with it.
I volunteered to be the first victim of my entire session of this semester of law school on Monday. I volunteered to take the first case. I think I did rather well under the pressure. I like talking in class and I don't worry about giving the wrong answers. I expect that some of what I say will be either wrong or at least not what the professor had in mind, but I'm fine with that. I don't know everything, and the best I can do is put in as much time and effort as I can to do as well as I can.
The workload isn't so bad thus far. I put in 12.5 hours yesterday and about 10 hours today. I would have put in closer to 11.5, but my torts professor told me to read the entire section on battery instead of just the section dealing with the elements for Wednesday. Turns out we won't get to intent till Thursday, so I ended up doing both Wednesday's and Thursday's assignment last night. I was rather frustrated with the whole thing, but I feel better now that I saved myself some time tonight. Unfortunately, I'm stuck here at school until the bus comes.
Let me be clear about something. Law is not, in any way, shape, or form, an easy subject to study. It asks a lot of difficult questions, which you won't always have the right answers to. Even your best logic can leave you wondering what the hell just went on. Also, the rules that are put forth in these casebooks sometimes end up contradicting each other. This is by design, I'm guessing so we can see how the system is flawed. These are my initial thoughts. I'll let you know how things are going later on when I have a better idea of the hell I'm going to put myself through.
One last note... you will HATE civil procedure. It is nasty. The statutes you have to read are written in a language that no mere mortal can comprehend. The words don't fit together well and apparently the people that wrote them had no clue what a runon sentence was. That's just the beginning of it. The Supreme Court has been shown to conflict with itself on several occasions when it comes to procedure. I expect this will come back to haunt me on exam day.
I volunteered to be the first victim of my entire session of this semester of law school on Monday. I volunteered to take the first case. I think I did rather well under the pressure. I like talking in class and I don't worry about giving the wrong answers. I expect that some of what I say will be either wrong or at least not what the professor had in mind, but I'm fine with that. I don't know everything, and the best I can do is put in as much time and effort as I can to do as well as I can.
The workload isn't so bad thus far. I put in 12.5 hours yesterday and about 10 hours today. I would have put in closer to 11.5, but my torts professor told me to read the entire section on battery instead of just the section dealing with the elements for Wednesday. Turns out we won't get to intent till Thursday, so I ended up doing both Wednesday's and Thursday's assignment last night. I was rather frustrated with the whole thing, but I feel better now that I saved myself some time tonight. Unfortunately, I'm stuck here at school until the bus comes.
Let me be clear about something. Law is not, in any way, shape, or form, an easy subject to study. It asks a lot of difficult questions, which you won't always have the right answers to. Even your best logic can leave you wondering what the hell just went on. Also, the rules that are put forth in these casebooks sometimes end up contradicting each other. This is by design, I'm guessing so we can see how the system is flawed. These are my initial thoughts. I'll let you know how things are going later on when I have a better idea of the hell I'm going to put myself through.
One last note... you will HATE civil procedure. It is nasty. The statutes you have to read are written in a language that no mere mortal can comprehend. The words don't fit together well and apparently the people that wrote them had no clue what a runon sentence was. That's just the beginning of it. The Supreme Court has been shown to conflict with itself on several occasions when it comes to procedure. I expect this will come back to haunt me on exam day.
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