a great big BOO to all things trusts & estates
[note: this post is not actually worth reading, but like most of my posts, i didn't really realize that until it was too far along to stop and then i decided to keep rambling on about my class selection and my dislike of any number of things about my class.]
well, not all things in the whole wide world related to trusts & estates, and not even everything in the whole of UVA law school that is trusts & estates. but a great big BOO to nearly everything that will involve trusts & estates and me this semester.
so i don't know if you recall how excited i was to get out of that horrible 9am class and get into the employee benefits thing with doran. so it happened on monday and i was very excited! so i slept in the next morning and i started my day with a 10:30 and i then went to the noon class with doran. well, it was about 12:08 when i started IMing people that i had better get the hell out of there. not even a great professor can save a class that is so far out of your league. so after much IMing and great debating, all over IM during this class, which probably explains at least part of why i didn't have a clue what was going on, i decided that there would be far greater shame in failing a class as a 3L than there would be pain in having a 9am that would at least be relatively easy to pass by all accounts. furthermore, i concluded that this was the sort of class that i could skip a fair amount. particularly if the teacher is awful.
oh, and it actually turns out that they had deleted all changes made on monday, so i had never even switched classes, and then, just to see, i tried to get into the doran class and it was full and wouldn't let me. which i figured was clearly god telling me that i should stay in trusts & estates. the last time god had spoken that clearly to me was 2 weeks ago when he told me to buy that dress and there is much evidence that says that was clearly the right decision. so out of employee benefits and back into T&E it was.
so there i was, thursday at 9am, slightly disgruntled, but generally OK.
ONLY SHE STARTS CALLING ON PEOPLE! and i haven't done the reading. of COURSE i haven't done the reading. i mean, i have been VERY bogged down with a lot of other things. mostly like screwing around. but i had TRIED to do the reading. it just didn't happen. so it was one of those classes where you have no idea what is going on and you just figure that if you had done the reading it would make sense. oh, and i was also terror-stricken the entire class b/c of the name-calling. turns out she just goes down the list, but i didn't realize that until the second-to-last person of the day commented on it and by that time i had already spent the entire hour wanting to vomit out of terror.
which brings me to yesterday. so now i am in the class, i'm behind on the reading (which always makes it even harder to motivate b/c do you skip what you skipped and move ahead, or do you try to do all of the reading to date, or do you just give totally up and figure screw the reading for the whole semester), and i have no idea if she'll call on me b/c she was up to the Cs by this point and she calls on everyone for like one stupid little question (which is not to imply that i would have any idea what to say when my stupid little question comes) and zooms right thru the roster.
well it was a very grueling analysis of many factors, but i wound up doing the reading for today and skipping last week's. today's even made sense! i figured i was ok. ONLY THEN SHE STARTS CALLING ON PEOPLE ABOUT LAST WEEK'S READING! oh, and no one had done it b/c she did this horrible thing where she disguised 20 pages of reading behind no page numbers and also had called it "background reading," so that no one at all did it. and when she asked who had done it, after having rambled on about SOMETHING (i have no idea what b/c she sure wasn't teaching us about the case or the law) for like 20 minutes, ONE person raises their hand. now yes, most of the time people don't actually raise their hands, but SOME people do. so when ONE person in a class of 100 does, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE THAT TO MEAN THAT YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY ASSIGN THE READING! oh, and the further problem for me on this is that if that reading isn't what made last thursday's class make any sense, then how the hell am i ever going to figure out what was going on in last thursday's class? it's always a bad sign when it's day 3 and you don't have a damned clue what's going on.
oh, and to make matters worse, lexi tells me i can't just skip all the time. I DON'T KNOW WHY LEXI DID NOT MENTION EITHER THE COLD CALLING OR THE FACT THAT SKIPPING ALL OF THE CLASSES WAS NOT AN OPTION WHEN I WAS GOING THRU THE WHOLE DEBATE ABOUT TAKING IT OR USING THE UNIVERSITY CROSS-REGISTRATION SYSTEM TO ENROLL IN UNDERWATER BASKETWEAVING OVER AT THE COLLEGE!
well, not all things in the whole wide world related to trusts & estates, and not even everything in the whole of UVA law school that is trusts & estates. but a great big BOO to nearly everything that will involve trusts & estates and me this semester.
so i don't know if you recall how excited i was to get out of that horrible 9am class and get into the employee benefits thing with doran. so it happened on monday and i was very excited! so i slept in the next morning and i started my day with a 10:30 and i then went to the noon class with doran. well, it was about 12:08 when i started IMing people that i had better get the hell out of there. not even a great professor can save a class that is so far out of your league. so after much IMing and great debating, all over IM during this class, which probably explains at least part of why i didn't have a clue what was going on, i decided that there would be far greater shame in failing a class as a 3L than there would be pain in having a 9am that would at least be relatively easy to pass by all accounts. furthermore, i concluded that this was the sort of class that i could skip a fair amount. particularly if the teacher is awful.
oh, and it actually turns out that they had deleted all changes made on monday, so i had never even switched classes, and then, just to see, i tried to get into the doran class and it was full and wouldn't let me. which i figured was clearly god telling me that i should stay in trusts & estates. the last time god had spoken that clearly to me was 2 weeks ago when he told me to buy that dress and there is much evidence that says that was clearly the right decision. so out of employee benefits and back into T&E it was.
so there i was, thursday at 9am, slightly disgruntled, but generally OK.
ONLY SHE STARTS CALLING ON PEOPLE! and i haven't done the reading. of COURSE i haven't done the reading. i mean, i have been VERY bogged down with a lot of other things. mostly like screwing around. but i had TRIED to do the reading. it just didn't happen. so it was one of those classes where you have no idea what is going on and you just figure that if you had done the reading it would make sense. oh, and i was also terror-stricken the entire class b/c of the name-calling. turns out she just goes down the list, but i didn't realize that until the second-to-last person of the day commented on it and by that time i had already spent the entire hour wanting to vomit out of terror.
which brings me to yesterday. so now i am in the class, i'm behind on the reading (which always makes it even harder to motivate b/c do you skip what you skipped and move ahead, or do you try to do all of the reading to date, or do you just give totally up and figure screw the reading for the whole semester), and i have no idea if she'll call on me b/c she was up to the Cs by this point and she calls on everyone for like one stupid little question (which is not to imply that i would have any idea what to say when my stupid little question comes) and zooms right thru the roster.
well it was a very grueling analysis of many factors, but i wound up doing the reading for today and skipping last week's. today's even made sense! i figured i was ok. ONLY THEN SHE STARTS CALLING ON PEOPLE ABOUT LAST WEEK'S READING! oh, and no one had done it b/c she did this horrible thing where she disguised 20 pages of reading behind no page numbers and also had called it "background reading," so that no one at all did it. and when she asked who had done it, after having rambled on about SOMETHING (i have no idea what b/c she sure wasn't teaching us about the case or the law) for like 20 minutes, ONE person raises their hand. now yes, most of the time people don't actually raise their hands, but SOME people do. so when ONE person in a class of 100 does, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE THAT TO MEAN THAT YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY ASSIGN THE READING! oh, and the further problem for me on this is that if that reading isn't what made last thursday's class make any sense, then how the hell am i ever going to figure out what was going on in last thursday's class? it's always a bad sign when it's day 3 and you don't have a damned clue what's going on.
oh, and to make matters worse, lexi tells me i can't just skip all the time. I DON'T KNOW WHY LEXI DID NOT MENTION EITHER THE COLD CALLING OR THE FACT THAT SKIPPING ALL OF THE CLASSES WAS NOT AN OPTION WHEN I WAS GOING THRU THE WHOLE DEBATE ABOUT TAKING IT OR USING THE UNIVERSITY CROSS-REGISTRATION SYSTEM TO ENROLL IN UNDERWATER BASKETWEAVING OVER AT THE COLLEGE!
posted by laura at 12:55 PM
2 Comments:
ERISA rocks. You lost out.
Sigh, I thought that all professors cold called, I didnt think it was relevant to the discussion. Plus, your professor's cold calls are softballs. My T&E professor, who I loved, had the most terrifying cold calls ever, but I loved T&E and did the reading with much glee all the time. Which is why I'm becoming the type of lawyer I'm becoming, because I looooooove T&E. THe reading is interesting, you should do it! Plus the book is really good for T&E, you don't need to understand class if you have the book.
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