Thursday, January 12th, 2006
First semester is over. I’m happy. I’m also very, very tired. It’s break now; we get ten whole days of rest and relaxation before the cycle begins again.
My impressions of law school exams:
They’re rough. I’ve had bad exams before, but never a set of them that so thoroughly kicked my ass from start to finish. At the end of the semester, I felt the most comfortable with Criminal Law and less so with Property and Civil Procedure. This reversed itself for exams. I felt okay about the Civil Procedure take-home, Property wasn’t as bad as I expected, but I ended the semester by spending three hours flailing around in the oddly-warm Criminal Law kiddie pool, just trying to keep my head above water.
I like the eight-hour take-homes better than three-hour in-class exams. (Yeah, I’m crazy…) And I like open-book exams more than closed-book. (…but not that crazy.)
On policy questions, there’s a thin line between complete BS and saying something interesting and non-obvious. I have absolutely no clue which side my answers ended up on, which suggests that it’s probably not the right side.
They say you get the best grade in the class you felt worst about, and vice versa. Everything’s curved, so your feelings probably have little to do with your grade. We’ll see.
Anyways. Off to relax. Rock over London, rock on, Chicago.