Thursday, October 28, 2010

wow

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Rant and rave.

I can't wait to be out of class and to have time to go to Yoga, and the gym. I've found myself all week wishing for yoga, thinking it would help with my stress level.

But, I digress. I've been reading blawgs lately about how 1L's DO have time to spend w/ their significant others and to do community service, and to blah blah blah, and all I can say is - you obviously are talking about those crazy 1L's that are traditional, and don't work full time. Us part timers? We just want to have some clean clothes, coffee, maybe a hot meal, and figure out how the hell we're supposed to do legal research while reading crazy amounts and trying to keep up with some warped version of the Socratic method.

Also, and this is beyond crazy, I find myself becoming annoyed in class with professors. I'm sitting there thinking - Really? We're watching a video on the weight of words? No, sorry, I don't have time for this. Teach me what I need to learn, and then let me get into the library and start using it on one of the 29384693 assignments you've given me this week. But don't waste my time with other crap that isn't relevant to everything you're expecting me to get done. And crying in class? Please, I lost touch with my emotions somewhere between weeks 5 and 6, when I realized that I'm going to have to go into your final with no idea if I have any of the skills you expect me to have, and with no benchmark or feedback as to how I'm doing, and no real knowledge as to what is is your looking for. SO yeah, that's my frustration right now. And the fact that once (maybe twice) a week my classmates and I go out, play trivia, and have beer? Those are survival skills people, survival. And way more important than say, clean clothes or hot meals.

Sorry for the rant, the end of semester stress is just starting to really hit me. :p

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

When it rains, and other such phrases

Three and a half weeks until finals. I'm feeling the pressure, big time. I got pretty solid B's for midterms, but I busted my ass to get those B's, and a lot of the awesome people I studied with did better. Now I'm feeling the pressure to work even harder for finals. And of course while this is going on, my house is selling, and my personal life seems to be imploding. I guess this is the challenge of law school: handling a full time job, law school, and a personal life, and doing with it a smile on my face, even when all I want to do is hide under the covers. 

Today is a stressful day. 

Monday, October 25, 2010

Forgetful

Law school has made me forgetful, especially when it comes to work. I find that I'm so stressed trying to remember everything I have to get done for law school, that I end up forgetting what I need to get done for work. And when I spend the majority of my time working or studying for law school, that's not good. The working enables me to be here. I gotta get my game face on and start handling both worlds a little bit better.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

T-4 weeks until finals

Four weeks exactly left of school, and then we have finals. Already started studying, thank god. It helps to have some really good study partners that know when to focus and when it's cool to screw around. The more MBE's I can do, the better I'm gonna do.

If I can just keep chugging and get thru the next couple of weeks we'll be fine.

K and I are half assing our Halloween costumes, since we can't find overalls anywhere. Oh well, that's just how it goes...I don't have any time to really spend on this stuff. I gotta keep my head in the game for a few more weeks.

Here's to doing well at the end (I hope!).

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Law...school?

Sometimes when I study, but more frequently during class, I hear something and think, wow, law school. How in the hell did I get here?! But in a really, really good way.

B's on both midterms. I'm really happy about that. I can't believe that I'm here, doing it, and succeeding. Sometimes, it all feels surreal. Really, really good, but surreal.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Beat down

I got an 86.6% on my open memo. That apparently, in law school LP class, means that I get a 'C'. I don't get the curve, at all. I don't understand how when I score the necessary points to get what is a B+, it gets knocked down to a C. BOO. Here's to being disheartened.

1 out of 5 points

Disheartening. That's what my crim law essay midterm score was. I got a 'B' on the multiple choice, but failed massively on the essay. I feel slightly better that 99% of my classmates got either a 1 or a 0 as well, but I know that I can do better.

It just seems counter intuitive that Professor Crim Law isn't actually grading us on learning how to argue or apply the law to situations like the rest of my professors. The rest of them want me to know and cite the rule, and then apply it to a fact pattern. But she is the master of the class, so I'll play by her rules.

Fall break is over, and I have 34 days of school left (who's counting, right?) and only 5 more reading assignments (THANK GOD!). I can't tell you how nervous/scared/excited I am about that.

Unfortunately, the busy-ness is ramping up. I have an SBA Meeting and reception thing Fri, which is the same day that K gets keys to his house (!!!!). I want to do something special for him, but I have no idea when to fit all of this in. Saturday we're going on a date, so maybe I can do something then. Plus Sunday I have a study group meeting and I also need to go to my Mom's house (tomorrow's her birthday and I promised to help her set up her Halloween party). So, in that time I also need to get some studying done, too. OH, and I have to get the Halloween costume thing sorted, too. And I need to outline stuff too, and work on the pile of homework that's slowly getting dumped on me.

Crazy times, man. Working full time and going to school part time seems CRAZY.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Miderms are over

My memo is all turned in, and my contracts midterm is over. I have to write a small IRAC essay for my Criminal Law class, but I have a few days to do that, thank god.

I'm not sure how I did on my Contracts mid term. I know that I struggled with the MBE questions, and probably missed 4-5 of them. I'm comfortable with that, since he's taking the average of the top 10 grades and making that the 100%. As far as the essay, I was really happy with it. I got done with it about 15 minutes early, and was able to go back in and edit and make sure that I defined everything. Overall, I'm cautiously optimistic.

Fall break! I'm excited. My house is being listed for sale, so I'm going to spend part of tomorrow and Sunday re-arranging things (my roommate moved out), and getting ready for the house stager to come over Monday. How crazy is it that I have a house stager? The real estate agent is providing her, so I feel like I should just take the help and laugh about the whole experience. Hopefully it'll help my house sell that much faster.

Other than that I have big plans to get a manicure and split a bottle of wine with a friend, and overall, just catch up on some sleep and get organized. I'm stoked! :)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Contracts, you're still winning

Even with a midterm this week, I have an awesome contracts professor. Not only is he doing a review in class, but he's allowing us to come into his office and get private review sessions.

Serious studying tomorrow with my study group, PLUS my memo is due. I'm feeling more confident everyday. Just don't want to get over confident.

Contracts, FTW.