Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Finals, finals...

Ok, so I'm now in the home stretch fo rfinals this semester. I've only got one left, on Friday, and it shouldnt be that bad. Contracts is easy enough, once you know where to look for answers and stuff.

Law is law, when you get down to it, and the study of law is simple. You look at the particular statute governing the problem, and then say "how is the problem in question like the statute? How is it different?" Usually thats enough. If not, look for precedent cases and stuff, and do the above exercise again. The trick to law school is knowing how to pick out key differences from unimportant ones. That's all it is. Logic and critical thinking.

Anyhow, my previous final was crim law. It was 3 hours of applying the law to situations. 3 hours, and 3 full blue books of essay. I realized that I wrote, in 3 hours, approximately 36 double spaced pages of information. That is the other key to law school - endurance. They want to see if you will sit still and focus for 3 or 4 hours straight. I dont know why they do this. Perhaps because they are "preparing us for the real world". Well, I have a whole big problem with this approach, but I won't go into it untill my next post.

And that is that. Now back to Contracts and the Albaquerque (sp?)Isotopes and Jeopardy.

3 comments:

Delia Carolina said...

What do you mean?? You have a problem focusing?? How dare you Andy... you're in law school, fix that problem!

Wildefrost said...

Good luck! I hear you with the whole finals ordeal at the moment. They should be abolished alltogether!

Smackymc said...

Yeah del, I have a problem focusing... maybe I need some Miami focus training...

And welcome Lauren to my humble blog. finals are brutal, but the good thing is when theyre over, theyre over. good luck to you too.