This post a little late (by about a week). I only have 2 more weeks of class left and then I'm on my own to study until the end of July. I've been keeping on top of all my assignments, but still haven't had any time to really sit down and just memorize the law. But I'm told by friends who've taken the bar that there is enough time to learn it in the 3 weeks we have to study on our own. So we'll see.
We just had constitutional law and I've been rocking the multiple choice questions. According to the DVD workshop video we have, Con Law are the easiest questions. So I'm excited about that.
I've also gotten two very good grades on my last 2 essays that I turned in. I'll definitely feel more comfortable after I start memorizing the law. Like, I know it vaguely now, but can't state specific rules and all the crazy exceptions.
Here are some more quotes. I forgot which class they were from, so think of this as your barbri potpourii of quotes:
- Isn't Kato Kaelin proof that Gilligan and Ginger really ddi sleep together?
- The jury hears this guy molsests parrots and they're going to be upset (Creepy Evidence professor)
- Maybe it's contributing to the delinquency of a canary
- The jury hears he molests parrots and they all gasp. Because they are all bird fanciers
- Never try to prove in court that somoeone's a vampire. I don't care what they do on Buffy, don't try it.
- You're some kind of crazy moron to be doing that.
- It's like being pregnant. You're either pregnant or you're not. There's no "kinda" pregnant.
- Illinois frowns on cousins hooking up with each other.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Terrified
Just as I start to get a grasp on a subject, we learn something new. And then as I start to go over that subject, I realize how much I don't know and how much I'm supposed to know and I'm terrified that I'm going to fail the bar exam.
I know I'm probably being irrational, but it's such a scary thought.
I hate how I've memorized all of this stuff before, only to forget it the day right after the final exam. About half of the subjects are things we learned during the first year. Aside from Criminal Law, I can barely remember any of the substance.
Booo! Why didn't I choose a different profession?
I know I'm probably being irrational, but it's such a scary thought.
I hate how I've memorized all of this stuff before, only to forget it the day right after the final exam. About half of the subjects are things we learned during the first year. Aside from Criminal Law, I can barely remember any of the substance.
Booo! Why didn't I choose a different profession?
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Torts - Not Just a Delicious Treat
I had an essay lecture, Torts, and family law this week. I managed to get all caught up with my assignments, but then I fell behind today because I didn't get any work done because it was my mommy's birthday. But it was worth it. I'll just work harder tomorrow to get caught up.
As I may have mentioned, the class is at the Atlantis. So usually we're in these conference rooms near the arcade, which is fine because we can't really hear the arcade. Well on Weds. they moved us to another room on the other side of the hotel....overlooking the casino floor....right next to the stage.
That was a problem. One "wall" was not really a wall, but pretty much all windows covered by these wooden slats, almost like big wooden blinds. Well they did nothing to deafen the sound.
So all during the lecture, we could hear the lousy cover band singing. Terrible.
I called the next day and complained to Barbri. Absolutely unacceptable that we pay that much and they can't secure the same room for us. I mean, we're there for almost 2 months and the Atlantis can't just keep us in the same room.
It was definitely annoying, but not that detrimental because it was an essay workshop, so I didn't really have to listen intently to take notes. But if we're ever in there again, I'm going to flip out.
I have more quotes. The Torts professor was hilarious. I loved the guy. Unfortunately with all the stories he told and the wild hypotheticals, class was almost 4 hours each day. BOOOO! And I miss grandma cheryl because I had class. I hate this stupid bar exam.
No matter what people say, I think NV has a harder bar exam than California. We have 9 essays to CA's 8. We have way more topics that are covered that CA doesn't. It's such BS.
Anywho, I'm gonna get to bed so I can get up early and study. Enjoy the quotes from Torts, Community Property, and Family Law: As usual, my favorites are bolded.
Community Property
1. What’s your bitch man, he left you his entire estate?
2. The case involved Barry Bonds, I’m not sure but I think he’s a baseball player.
3. Relying on a law professor, always a stupid thing to do.
4. I went to law school because I couldn’t handle algebra
5. capitalization of excess earnings – whatever the hell that means
Torts
1. I have issues about my shoulders, just don’t touch my shoulders.
2. Don’t touch me, you’ve deeply offended me and I’m going to sue.
3. Normal people find tapping on the shoulder to be acceptable touching.
4. I’m pretty sure that’s the kind of touching that’s not acceptable.
5. What the hell is that, that’s battery city. We don’t pet each other
6. She’s like a creature of mythology – half woman, half horse.
7. Ooh, those devious bastards!
8. If you leave this room, I’m going to blow up the planet Jupiter.
9. Yes he could get out. But in order to get out, he’d have to suffer a few rodent
bites to be on his merry way.
10. How do they write the bar exam questions? They sit around a big conference table and then drop tabs of acid. And then they get flashbacks. “Hey, you remember that game Clue………”
11. You get on the NY City Subway and there’s a guy sitting across from you with a severed human head. What do you do? You don’t make eye contact. Continue playing suduko and if he throws the head at you, throw it back.
12. Here’s a NY insult in case you ever need one – “I used to have a shirt like that and then my father got a job.”
13. You were having the best erotic dream. There was synthesizer music, people wearing billowing robes, and animals are everywhere. Oh, did I say that out loud?
14. They’re supposed to carry your luggage and kiss your ass, not insult you.
15. I’m not suggesting that all elderly people are incontinent. Only when you get in their face and are mean to them.
16. Elderly people ARE incontinent – go to the drug store. There’s a whole aisle devoted to that concept.
17. Pregnant women….I have no hypos. Just imagine people being mean to pregnant women.
18. My whole family was killed by snakes
19. What the hell is up with defibrillators? Haven’t they figured out how much
electricity to use the first time?
20. The entire office smells like an open pit barbecue from the burning chest flesh.
21. Bar examiners are fascinated with hats, so hats often come to grief on the exam.
22. 13 year olds can’t consent to sex. If this is news to anyone, please see me after class. We need to have a chat about your social life.
23. They have an awkward breakfast of cold cereal and instant coffee
24. What the hell? You invite the guy to watch the game and he ends up in the attic. Stay the hell in the family room. Stay out of the attic.
25. That was one rude looking honker on your face.
26. Bad doctor, very naughty doctor.
27. Timmy was Lassie’s owner and June Lockhart was his mom and you have no idea what
the hell I’m talking about because the show went off the air in 1968.
28. And next week, Timmy would fall down another well. Because these people had 80 wells on their property and Timmy has an unnatural attraction to wells.
29. I just shot Lassie and Timmy knows the next time he goes out to play, he’s a dead man.
30. He’s gonna sue you for conversion of the dog. What’s he gonna do? Sue you for putting a yamaka on the dog? Throwing some holy water on him?
31. You have syphilis; I can see that by looking at you. You might want to get that taken care of.
32. The fact that mother’s cover the eyes of their children when they pass you on the street is not legally relevant
33. If married people couldn’t defame the neighbors, what the hell else are they going to talk about?
34. A reasonably prudent person would arrange for the plants to be watered and the pets to be fed when they go out of town. I don’t. I go on the road for two weeks and come home and find a skeleton of a cat in the kitchen. And then I think “Aww! Fluffy….I’ll have to change your name now. I’ll call you Boney”
Torts Part II
1. Billy runs over Susie’s widdle bitty hand. Susie sues widdle Billy’s ass because she wants some cash.
2. Your intellectual curisosity has been beaten out of you.
3. I’m doing whatever one does on a tractor. I don’t know what that is, I’m from New York.
4. You ignorant slut, you blew up my apartment.
5. Don’t do drugs…..Well, let me say this. If you are on drugs, stay on them until the Bar. Now is not the time to go to rehab. Wait until August and then get some
help.
6. My people don’t hunt, we go to the deli.
Family Law
1. I’m thinking coitus
2. There’s Harry, sitting on the bed in Pampers, holding a bottle of Wesson oil. She has grounds for an annulment.
As I may have mentioned, the class is at the Atlantis. So usually we're in these conference rooms near the arcade, which is fine because we can't really hear the arcade. Well on Weds. they moved us to another room on the other side of the hotel....overlooking the casino floor....right next to the stage.
That was a problem. One "wall" was not really a wall, but pretty much all windows covered by these wooden slats, almost like big wooden blinds. Well they did nothing to deafen the sound.
So all during the lecture, we could hear the lousy cover band singing. Terrible.
I called the next day and complained to Barbri. Absolutely unacceptable that we pay that much and they can't secure the same room for us. I mean, we're there for almost 2 months and the Atlantis can't just keep us in the same room.
It was definitely annoying, but not that detrimental because it was an essay workshop, so I didn't really have to listen intently to take notes. But if we're ever in there again, I'm going to flip out.
I have more quotes. The Torts professor was hilarious. I loved the guy. Unfortunately with all the stories he told and the wild hypotheticals, class was almost 4 hours each day. BOOOO! And I miss grandma cheryl because I had class. I hate this stupid bar exam.
No matter what people say, I think NV has a harder bar exam than California. We have 9 essays to CA's 8. We have way more topics that are covered that CA doesn't. It's such BS.
Anywho, I'm gonna get to bed so I can get up early and study. Enjoy the quotes from Torts, Community Property, and Family Law: As usual, my favorites are bolded.
Community Property
1. What’s your bitch man, he left you his entire estate?
2. The case involved Barry Bonds, I’m not sure but I think he’s a baseball player.
3. Relying on a law professor, always a stupid thing to do.
4. I went to law school because I couldn’t handle algebra
5. capitalization of excess earnings – whatever the hell that means
Torts
1. I have issues about my shoulders, just don’t touch my shoulders.
2. Don’t touch me, you’ve deeply offended me and I’m going to sue.
3. Normal people find tapping on the shoulder to be acceptable touching.
4. I’m pretty sure that’s the kind of touching that’s not acceptable.
5. What the hell is that, that’s battery city. We don’t pet each other
6. She’s like a creature of mythology – half woman, half horse.
7. Ooh, those devious bastards!
8. If you leave this room, I’m going to blow up the planet Jupiter.
9. Yes he could get out. But in order to get out, he’d have to suffer a few rodent
bites to be on his merry way.
10. How do they write the bar exam questions? They sit around a big conference table and then drop tabs of acid. And then they get flashbacks. “Hey, you remember that game Clue………”
11. You get on the NY City Subway and there’s a guy sitting across from you with a severed human head. What do you do? You don’t make eye contact. Continue playing suduko and if he throws the head at you, throw it back.
12. Here’s a NY insult in case you ever need one – “I used to have a shirt like that and then my father got a job.”
13. You were having the best erotic dream. There was synthesizer music, people wearing billowing robes, and animals are everywhere. Oh, did I say that out loud?
14. They’re supposed to carry your luggage and kiss your ass, not insult you.
15. I’m not suggesting that all elderly people are incontinent. Only when you get in their face and are mean to them.
16. Elderly people ARE incontinent – go to the drug store. There’s a whole aisle devoted to that concept.
17. Pregnant women….I have no hypos. Just imagine people being mean to pregnant women.
18. My whole family was killed by snakes
19. What the hell is up with defibrillators? Haven’t they figured out how much
electricity to use the first time?
20. The entire office smells like an open pit barbecue from the burning chest flesh.
21. Bar examiners are fascinated with hats, so hats often come to grief on the exam.
22. 13 year olds can’t consent to sex. If this is news to anyone, please see me after class. We need to have a chat about your social life.
23. They have an awkward breakfast of cold cereal and instant coffee
24. What the hell? You invite the guy to watch the game and he ends up in the attic. Stay the hell in the family room. Stay out of the attic.
25. That was one rude looking honker on your face.
26. Bad doctor, very naughty doctor.
27. Timmy was Lassie’s owner and June Lockhart was his mom and you have no idea what
the hell I’m talking about because the show went off the air in 1968.
28. And next week, Timmy would fall down another well. Because these people had 80 wells on their property and Timmy has an unnatural attraction to wells.
29. I just shot Lassie and Timmy knows the next time he goes out to play, he’s a dead man.
30. He’s gonna sue you for conversion of the dog. What’s he gonna do? Sue you for putting a yamaka on the dog? Throwing some holy water on him?
31. You have syphilis; I can see that by looking at you. You might want to get that taken care of.
32. The fact that mother’s cover the eyes of their children when they pass you on the street is not legally relevant
33. If married people couldn’t defame the neighbors, what the hell else are they going to talk about?
34. A reasonably prudent person would arrange for the plants to be watered and the pets to be fed when they go out of town. I don’t. I go on the road for two weeks and come home and find a skeleton of a cat in the kitchen. And then I think “Aww! Fluffy….I’ll have to change your name now. I’ll call you Boney”
Torts Part II
1. Billy runs over Susie’s widdle bitty hand. Susie sues widdle Billy’s ass because she wants some cash.
2. Your intellectual curisosity has been beaten out of you.
3. I’m doing whatever one does on a tractor. I don’t know what that is, I’m from New York.
4. You ignorant slut, you blew up my apartment.
5. Don’t do drugs…..Well, let me say this. If you are on drugs, stay on them until the Bar. Now is not the time to go to rehab. Wait until August and then get some
help.
6. My people don’t hunt, we go to the deli.
Family Law
1. I’m thinking coitus
2. There’s Harry, sitting on the bed in Pampers, holding a bottle of Wesson oil. She has grounds for an annulment.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Graduation
So I hate photobucket. I hit "blog this photo" to post the picture album, thinking it would post to the other blog but it appeared here. And then the spacing on the photo was really too big.
So I moved one of the pictures to flickr and just kept the link to the photobucket album. You should be able to click on the picture and see the rest of the graduation pictures.
So I moved one of the pictures to flickr and just kept the link to the photobucket album. You should be able to click on the picture and see the rest of the graduation pictures.
I Shot the Sheriff
I planned to get a lot done this weekend, but as you might have guessed that didn't pan out. Yesterday was Alex's birthday so I went shopping with my mom to get him a present and then to get stuff for dinner. Then I made chili and that took a while. Then Alex came over and I felt guilty about not spending time with him, so I didn't really get anything done yesterday.
Then today I felt super sleepy and couldn't concentrate. I tried writing an Evidence essay and it was just brutal. We had Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Evidence in lecture last week.
I'm excited about Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. I got the highest grade in Crim law and I just took Criminal Procedure. So I've been rocking the crimes questions. It's the one bright spot in an otherwise gloomy week.
I also wished I had gone to my Evidence class more last semester. I had a great professor, which I waited to take so I could take it with her, and then I blew off class. Now Evidence is so fucking hard! There are so many rules to remember.
Where can I get some illegal study drugs?
Here are some funny quotes from the Criminal Law lecture. I loved this guy. The bolded ones are my favorite. I'm praying I get caught up today and tomorrow. If I get anymore behind, I'll drown.
1. It’s gonna be just like church. I’m gonna say stuff, you’re gonna say stuff. I have never come home to L.A. and not had a terrific congregation.
2. Studying for the bar exam is intensely boring. Let’s try to liven it up and you can go to sleep later.
3. Don’t love them, don’t hate them. Don’t get involved with these animals, they don’t care about you.
4. If you need to write this down again, you’re the hurtingest buckaroo in the entire county.
5. This question is based on the presumption that if you knew any math, you would have gone to med school instead of law school.
6. If you had put a gun with only 5 bullets in its chamber is not a deadly weapon, you are in trouble on the bar exam and you are in trouble in life.
7. If you had put that down as the right answer, you will never own your own home.
8. If you want to read about the crimes against nature, do it on your own time. I admit, I love to lie awake at night and conjure the bestiality questions that might be on the bar exam.
9. Look out for these animals, they’re almost always there to screw you up.
10. These books are so full of quotes that they could choke a horse.
11. Do you know what I mean by wired? I don’t mean an extra cup of coffee. I mean won’t you just speak a little more clearly into the bowtie.
12. All police cars are wired – that won’t be on the bar exam and I’m sure that won’t ever be of any use to you.
13. You forget that I can see you.
14. If you really don’t know what the Miranda warnings are, I want you to study less tonight and watch some cop show on tv
15. Two of those jurors rocked so hard they fell off their chairs
Then today I felt super sleepy and couldn't concentrate. I tried writing an Evidence essay and it was just brutal. We had Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Evidence in lecture last week.
I'm excited about Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. I got the highest grade in Crim law and I just took Criminal Procedure. So I've been rocking the crimes questions. It's the one bright spot in an otherwise gloomy week.
I also wished I had gone to my Evidence class more last semester. I had a great professor, which I waited to take so I could take it with her, and then I blew off class. Now Evidence is so fucking hard! There are so many rules to remember.
Where can I get some illegal study drugs?
Here are some funny quotes from the Criminal Law lecture. I loved this guy. The bolded ones are my favorite. I'm praying I get caught up today and tomorrow. If I get anymore behind, I'll drown.
1. It’s gonna be just like church. I’m gonna say stuff, you’re gonna say stuff. I have never come home to L.A. and not had a terrific congregation.
2. Studying for the bar exam is intensely boring. Let’s try to liven it up and you can go to sleep later.
3. Don’t love them, don’t hate them. Don’t get involved with these animals, they don’t care about you.
4. If you need to write this down again, you’re the hurtingest buckaroo in the entire county.
5. This question is based on the presumption that if you knew any math, you would have gone to med school instead of law school.
6. If you had put a gun with only 5 bullets in its chamber is not a deadly weapon, you are in trouble on the bar exam and you are in trouble in life.
7. If you had put that down as the right answer, you will never own your own home.
8. If you want to read about the crimes against nature, do it on your own time. I admit, I love to lie awake at night and conjure the bestiality questions that might be on the bar exam.
9. Look out for these animals, they’re almost always there to screw you up.
10. These books are so full of quotes that they could choke a horse.
11. Do you know what I mean by wired? I don’t mean an extra cup of coffee. I mean won’t you just speak a little more clearly into the bowtie.
12. All police cars are wired – that won’t be on the bar exam and I’m sure that won’t ever be of any use to you.
13. You forget that I can see you.
14. If you really don’t know what the Miranda warnings are, I want you to study less tonight and watch some cop show on tv
15. Two of those jurors rocked so hard they fell off their chairs
Monday, May 28, 2007
Contract with the Devil
I've finished the first substantive area for bar review: Contracts.
The way class works is that we have a study schedule. Each day we are given assignments to do. By signing up for Barbri, I got a huge box with about 8 or 9 books in it. Two are big outlines of substantive law and the rest are either multiple choice or essay practice questions.
Each day I have reading for a particular topic and then at night, I got to the wonderful Atlantis where I watch a DVD lecture for 3 hours with 3 ten minute breaks. So we had 3 lectures on Contracts alone. This weekend I'm doing the first real practice questions.
I just finished the first set of practice contract multiple choice questions and I got about 1/2 right. I'm not sure how it compares but I'm just happy I didn't get them all wrong. After all, I haven't had contracts since my 1st year of law school and I only read the outline from Barbri once. Then I listened to a DVD explaining the answers.
According to the lecturer, "Contracts is not an area that you can beat, it's only an area where you can hope to minimize losses." Both DVD lectures said that Contracts is the hardest subject because the bar examiners are not consistent in the questions and they don't have "patterns" in the questions. It's just all about knowing the black letter law. Worst still is that several of the questions I got wrong contained the correct statement of law, but the answer was some bizarre exception that wasn't covered in the lecture. Another question said that the answer was wrong because "D was the better choice". Meaning it was close, but not close enough.
WTF?! I hate that. Two can be the answer, but one is slightly better. How the hell do you prepare for something like that?
I've kinda been slacking and I need to kick it up a notch. Friday we went and saw Pirates of the Carribean and today we went and saw Shrek 3. Really, I can't get behind on my summer blockbusters because so many are coming out that I doubt they can remain in the theaters long. Ahahaha.
Tomorrow I have to write 2 Contracts essays. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm generally better at essays, but still iffy on the substance. I'll let you know how it goes. Next week we have criminal law and criminal procedure. I got the highest grade in Criminal Law and I just took Criminal Procedure, so I'm feeling good about those.
I'm off to bed now. Here are some funny quotes I wrote down from the DVD Lecture:
Mnemonic: Armadillos from Texas, Play Rap Eating Tacos = Applicable Law, Formation, Terms, Performance, Remedies for nonperformance, Excuses for nonperformance, Third Party Issues
- Irregardless of the dollar amount
- You virtually have an armadillo whispering in your ear as you approach a contracts question
- It's necessary that Sharon Stone be in the shower with me
- I'm old enough to be the father of most of you and I'm up here blushing about lusting after Sharon Stone
- Remember this shit, it will be on the bar exam
- The word house reminds you of that wonderful TV program that you're missing while studying for the bar
- Anything less than putting paint on the damn walls is mere preparation
- I offer you my cadillac for $400 and you say HELL NO
- How long will John Tesh perform? It might feel like years if you were there.
- Finally we've completed the F word
- I was willing to ignore the boundaries of good taste
- Putting this more delicately, we have a situation where the rats got into the packages of coffee and did nature's calling
- It's best described as a mixed blend (talking about rat poop in a sack of coffee beans)
- All the clerk had to say was pick out your own damn shoes
- It's not law school that screwed you up
- We cannot have a legal doctrine known as the major screw-up doctrine
- For those of you who are culturally challenged....
- You have that damn armadillo eating tacos
- Armadillo eating that damn taco
- In Texas, there are grits everywhere. You can't walk down the street without stumbling on a sack of grits
- They have now extended the internet all the way into Texas
- Get out of here Boy Wonder.
The way class works is that we have a study schedule. Each day we are given assignments to do. By signing up for Barbri, I got a huge box with about 8 or 9 books in it. Two are big outlines of substantive law and the rest are either multiple choice or essay practice questions.
Each day I have reading for a particular topic and then at night, I got to the wonderful Atlantis where I watch a DVD lecture for 3 hours with 3 ten minute breaks. So we had 3 lectures on Contracts alone. This weekend I'm doing the first real practice questions.
I just finished the first set of practice contract multiple choice questions and I got about 1/2 right. I'm not sure how it compares but I'm just happy I didn't get them all wrong. After all, I haven't had contracts since my 1st year of law school and I only read the outline from Barbri once. Then I listened to a DVD explaining the answers.
According to the lecturer, "Contracts is not an area that you can beat, it's only an area where you can hope to minimize losses." Both DVD lectures said that Contracts is the hardest subject because the bar examiners are not consistent in the questions and they don't have "patterns" in the questions. It's just all about knowing the black letter law. Worst still is that several of the questions I got wrong contained the correct statement of law, but the answer was some bizarre exception that wasn't covered in the lecture. Another question said that the answer was wrong because "D was the better choice". Meaning it was close, but not close enough.
WTF?! I hate that. Two can be the answer, but one is slightly better. How the hell do you prepare for something like that?
I've kinda been slacking and I need to kick it up a notch. Friday we went and saw Pirates of the Carribean and today we went and saw Shrek 3. Really, I can't get behind on my summer blockbusters because so many are coming out that I doubt they can remain in the theaters long. Ahahaha.
Tomorrow I have to write 2 Contracts essays. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm generally better at essays, but still iffy on the substance. I'll let you know how it goes. Next week we have criminal law and criminal procedure. I got the highest grade in Criminal Law and I just took Criminal Procedure, so I'm feeling good about those.
I'm off to bed now. Here are some funny quotes I wrote down from the DVD Lecture:
Mnemonic: Armadillos from Texas, Play Rap Eating Tacos = Applicable Law, Formation, Terms, Performance, Remedies for nonperformance, Excuses for nonperformance, Third Party Issues
- Irregardless of the dollar amount
- You virtually have an armadillo whispering in your ear as you approach a contracts question
- It's necessary that Sharon Stone be in the shower with me
- I'm old enough to be the father of most of you and I'm up here blushing about lusting after Sharon Stone
- Remember this shit, it will be on the bar exam
- The word house reminds you of that wonderful TV program that you're missing while studying for the bar
- Anything less than putting paint on the damn walls is mere preparation
- I offer you my cadillac for $400 and you say HELL NO
- How long will John Tesh perform? It might feel like years if you were there.
- Finally we've completed the F word
- I was willing to ignore the boundaries of good taste
- Putting this more delicately, we have a situation where the rats got into the packages of coffee and did nature's calling
- It's best described as a mixed blend (talking about rat poop in a sack of coffee beans)
- All the clerk had to say was pick out your own damn shoes
- It's not law school that screwed you up
- We cannot have a legal doctrine known as the major screw-up doctrine
- For those of you who are culturally challenged....
- You have that damn armadillo eating tacos
- Armadillo eating that damn taco
- In Texas, there are grits everywhere. You can't walk down the street without stumbling on a sack of grits
- They have now extended the internet all the way into Texas
- Get out of here Boy Wonder.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Welcome to the Suck
I decided to create a new blog to chronicle my experience with the bar exam. Then I can look on it later and fondly remember how much this summer sucked.
Tonight was my first class of Barbri. If you recall from the other blog, Barbri is the bar review course that just about every law student takes. Barbri has a monopoly on the market. Seriously, a group of law students got together and filed a class action lawsuit against the company for antitrust violations. It was awesome. Totally the wrong group of people to piss off.
The class is in the Atlantis in one of the conference rooms. The good part is that we're right around the corner from the game room. So I can totally go out and play dance dance revolution on our breaks.
The bad part is that it's a conference room, so the tables are narrow and there's not a lot of space for a laptop plus the huge ass books that we're supposed to bring to class. Also, the chairs are very uncomfortable after a while. We get 10 minute breaks every so often, so I guess that's good.
Basically the way it works is we go in and watch a DVD lecture. Yes, that's right. I paid over $2500 to go and watch a DVD. They have "live" lectures in some places, where a real person is talking to you. But even then, you can't ask them questions. So either way, you have no real way to get help if you don't understand something. It's complete bullshit, but it is what it is.
We received our study schedule. It looks pretty intense. So although I created this blog, I can't promise it will be updated regularly. Probably it will devolve into a bitch fest about how much I hate studying. But I'll also try to post anything amusing or funny that happens during class or studying.
I'm going to try my damndest to go see a movie once in a while. I definitely want to see all the big blockbuster movies while they're still in the theaters. So maybe I'll make sunday afternoon my time off. Otherwise I'll go insane.
Worst. Summer. EVER!
Tonight was my first class of Barbri. If you recall from the other blog, Barbri is the bar review course that just about every law student takes. Barbri has a monopoly on the market. Seriously, a group of law students got together and filed a class action lawsuit against the company for antitrust violations. It was awesome. Totally the wrong group of people to piss off.
The class is in the Atlantis in one of the conference rooms. The good part is that we're right around the corner from the game room. So I can totally go out and play dance dance revolution on our breaks.
The bad part is that it's a conference room, so the tables are narrow and there's not a lot of space for a laptop plus the huge ass books that we're supposed to bring to class. Also, the chairs are very uncomfortable after a while. We get 10 minute breaks every so often, so I guess that's good.
Basically the way it works is we go in and watch a DVD lecture. Yes, that's right. I paid over $2500 to go and watch a DVD. They have "live" lectures in some places, where a real person is talking to you. But even then, you can't ask them questions. So either way, you have no real way to get help if you don't understand something. It's complete bullshit, but it is what it is.
We received our study schedule. It looks pretty intense. So although I created this blog, I can't promise it will be updated regularly. Probably it will devolve into a bitch fest about how much I hate studying. But I'll also try to post anything amusing or funny that happens during class or studying.
I'm going to try my damndest to go see a movie once in a while. I definitely want to see all the big blockbuster movies while they're still in the theaters. So maybe I'll make sunday afternoon my time off. Otherwise I'll go insane.
Worst. Summer. EVER!
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