Week Number.......eh?

Some days I wish school was more like Legally Blonde!
Too bad the "Bend and Snap" doesnt work for everything!

Tis the end of yet another week. I’ve lost track of my countdown since the beginning, but I believe it is 1 ½ weeks till Thanksgiving, and then 1 more week till finals. Partially I’ve lost track because it all blurs together, and partially because I am DREADING the end. These weeks go by WAY too fast and all of a sudden I am being forced to begin to study for finals. Ah, the good ole days when the nice teachers would announce “No, the final is not accumulative!” (psh...don’t even get me started on dreading SPRING semester finals when it is accumulative for the entire year)

Finals in school are crazy! Not only are they the only grade you get for the semester, but they are about 3 hours long, and all essay. Thankfully we can do them on the computer nowadays! I have a few things to say about finals:

1.       I secretly love the way finals are laid out. None of this cramming and regurgitating facts you wont remember an hour after the test is over. It’s one (or sometimes three) huge scenarios of something happening to someone, and what can they sue for and why they would or wouldn’t be successful. I’m not saying it’s easy, but the nerd in me would rather write an essay then guess at a multiple choice!

2.       They try to trick you. They want you to throw in every possible claim. Most students don’t even come close to getting all of the small facts teachers throw in to trip you up. (man, I would love to be a law professor!) Professors usually say a 70% is the highest grade on any final.

3.       It’s all about applying the law, so it does no good to simply have it memorized.  The law is something you are handed in a book, anyone can read law, but you have to learn to use it.

4.  You actually have to LEARN this stuff...like long term. There is this awful test at the end of law school called the BAR exam...where all of this information gets shoved back into your life and you are expected to remember it, or you arent allowed to be a lawyer

Well in addition to finals, I have a “final paper” due right before thanksgiving. It is something like 80% of our grade in legal research…so if finals weren’t stressing me out enough, this sure is!