Friday, July 17, 2009

More after finals!

I am in the final stretch before my first law exams. I have one next Friday and then one the following Monday. I plan on being back here within a couple days of the last final to blog about some very cool developments on the Gay Rights front. I have just been to busy making sure I am not going to completely bomb my first exams and have to go back to bringing people more ranch dressing for their salads. See you in a week!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Scary as Shit

Me = The Litte Girl
Final Exams = The Bird
Scary as Shit indeed

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Practice Exam

The practice exam was a complete wash. The Prof said there wasn't even a B paper in the stack. You could see the panic fly around the room as all of us wondered if we could get a management job at Burger King. However, some good did come out of it. Our Prof who was nice enough to give us the exam in the first place, went even further and spent the entire 2 hour class going over the mass majority of mistakes (alliteration anyone?) and giving us some much needed tips on what to do in future exams. May thousands of blessings fall upon his head for that. Then our Civ Pro teacher gave us last years exam to look over.

So, while bombed the practice, I know what is expected. I got the main points of law, I just didn't analyze enough. Paralegals are taught to be very very short and sweet. I have to get past these preconceived notions I have from being a paralegal student and start thinking like a law student. Armed with that knowledge and some supplemental study books, I feel more secure about finals in 3(ish) weeks. Lets hope I am right :)

Friday, July 3, 2009

PWNed by my Practice Exam

Our Crim Law Prof sent out an email today with the model answer for our practice exam we took Wednesday. From the answer he sent I can see that I am going down the right road, I got most of the charges dead on and made the correct arguments. however I can see that I am not going into nearly enough detail and making my answers and thorough as they need to be. I hate not knowing what to expect and how exactly to nail a question. As someone who had an easy time of it in undergrad making good grades, figuring out what the teacher wanted and giving them that, law school is making me feel inadequate and moronic. I know I am neither of these things and I possess what I think is a good legal mind. I just don't know how to get that across on my paper. Ugh! I can't wait until this is old hat and no longer the issue it is now. Am I a 2L yet??