trouble ahead
so i've picked the two exams i'm going to take first and i've been studying for the one i need to study for and not even thinking about the short one in the only class i've read for all semester. i decided this evening not to take it tomorrow morning, b/c i was doing so well on the fed courts work, so i figured i would just keep plowing thru it and employment law could wait.
no problem.
only a few minutes ago i decided that my head would explode if i looked at another page of fed courts notes, but it didn't seem worth opening employment law, since i'm not taking it tomorrow. i could just go to bed, but for the fact that i took approximately 5 hours off this evening for the gym and dinner and wine on my balcony. oh, after i didn't start studying til about 1pm.
anyways, point being i figured i would start looking at stuff for one of my remaining two classes. so i began by printing out the syllabus. which is probably your first sign that i'm in trouble. then, rather than even making an effort to begin doing the reading from the syllabus, i figured i would just highlight the names of the cases and passages we were supposed to read. in the casebook's table of contents. yes, highlighting the table of contents is what i am now calling "reading." that's how bad it has gotten.
only then it got worse. b/c my name falls early in the alphabet, and he did an alphabetical on-call system. and i NEVER again listened to a word that came out of his mouth, once i had been on call. so for the first half a page of the syllabus, i'm all with it. "oh this isn't going to be so bad! these case names are familiar and i think i even remember some facts!" and then i turn to the second page of the three-page syllabus.
seriously, i have heard maybe a third of these cases even mentioned by name. i have no idea what a single one of them is about. looks like some of them involved railroads. go figure.
the worst part? this isn't even the one of the two remaining classes that terrifies me. this is the one i'm not worried about!
they say no one fails, right? please tell me that's true!
no problem.
only a few minutes ago i decided that my head would explode if i looked at another page of fed courts notes, but it didn't seem worth opening employment law, since i'm not taking it tomorrow. i could just go to bed, but for the fact that i took approximately 5 hours off this evening for the gym and dinner and wine on my balcony. oh, after i didn't start studying til about 1pm.
anyways, point being i figured i would start looking at stuff for one of my remaining two classes. so i began by printing out the syllabus. which is probably your first sign that i'm in trouble. then, rather than even making an effort to begin doing the reading from the syllabus, i figured i would just highlight the names of the cases and passages we were supposed to read. in the casebook's table of contents. yes, highlighting the table of contents is what i am now calling "reading." that's how bad it has gotten.
only then it got worse. b/c my name falls early in the alphabet, and he did an alphabetical on-call system. and i NEVER again listened to a word that came out of his mouth, once i had been on call. so for the first half a page of the syllabus, i'm all with it. "oh this isn't going to be so bad! these case names are familiar and i think i even remember some facts!" and then i turn to the second page of the three-page syllabus.
seriously, i have heard maybe a third of these cases even mentioned by name. i have no idea what a single one of them is about. looks like some of them involved railroads. go figure.
the worst part? this isn't even the one of the two remaining classes that terrifies me. this is the one i'm not worried about!
they say no one fails, right? please tell me that's true!
posted by laura at 11:32 PM
1 Comments:
Hmmm...yes. I had the EXACT same experience 3 days ago, except I crossed out the names of the cases in the TOC that weren't assigned. It turns out he assigned the ENTIRE FRIGGIN BOOK minus 3 CASES. Talk about being up a creek!
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