It's only 1p and the day all ready feels like one of the longes of the semester. It's been a busy week. The workload really started to pick up this week. More reading, tougher cases, longer assignments in Research & Writing (a pass/fail course that teaches you how to do legal research). This weekend I'll go home for the first time since coming to lawschool. It'll be an extended weekend, we have fall break. I wont come back till Monday. I'm looking forward to seeing Katie and spending time with her at home. We have birthday parties most of the weekend and while I'll be at all of them, my mind will be here at St. Mary's. This four day weekend is generally the weekend where 1L's start to really work on their outlines for school. That's also my plan. Outlining for a class is a very tedious task. You sit at a table with your school book, class notes, case briefs and supplements and form an outline of the legal rules, exceptions, defenses and applications you've learned. This document at the end of the semester might be up to 40 or 50 pages long and will be the only document you use to study at the end of the semester at finals time. So you can imagine that the outline is very important. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work done.
Grades at lawschool are very different than grades at undergrad which is much like highschool. In most of my classes I'll have one test at the end of the semester which will basically result in my overall grade for the class. You have one test, over everything you've covered from August to December. One shot, once chance.
It's a stressful way
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