Good Intentions

Finals are upon us, finally. (That has a nice ring to it, I feel.)

My first one is Contracts, and I’m in the process of studying now. Our prof is letting us bring in anything we want, as long as it’s written and not digital. So that means supplemental outlines! Ha. Especially useful for me, since *gasp* I’m not outlining.

That’s right. For this semester, I’m eschewing the infamous “outlining” and seeing how my normal study habits work out for me. If they don’t work, I’ll switch to something else in the future. But, I am hoping they do work. They’ve gotten me this far, and I’ve come to realize that law school is, in fact, not much different from any other type of school where professors don’t actually teach and the book is fairly obfuscating.

I’ll post updates here when I’m frustrated with or bored from studying. Cheerio.

Phew, that was a bit of a break.

So, here I am, with only 8 more days of work left and then the real fun begins: the agonizing countdown to orientation and the first day of class. I’ve actually finally received my schedule from UH, so that’s somewhat comforting. Except comforting is the wrong word; really what I mean is terrifying. But in a giddy, schoolchild kind of way.

You know, like back in elementary school when you’d get your teacher assignment and you’d scan the room looking for someone you know but then that slow-dawning horror of realization crosses your mind like a dusky shadow, that no, you don’t know anyone in this class and you never will, no, you will be the pariah, the outcast, eating your peanut butter and jelly sandwich alone every single solitary day of elementary school, alone, alone, all alone.

Or maybe it was just me? Ha.

Anyway, the sched is fairly ok. I start at 9:00 MTTh, 9:30 on Friday, and 10:30 on Wednesday. Not too shabby. Torts, Contracts, Legal Research, and Procedure. Fun stuff, right?

Right.

I was looking at the orientation schedule for UH, and it’s two days long. Not so bad, right? Well, for the first day’s schedule, it goes from 8am til around 4pm…ALL IN ONE ROOM. No other room is listed. I hope we don’t have to sit on our asses for 8 hours in the auditorium. That would suck a skosh.

Only 8 more workdays left, and it seems my tasks are drying up. That’s a good sign, right? Well, not so good for boredom. On the plus side, blogging at work is fun!