THE FIRST SEMESTER IS IN THE CAN

As of Tuesday, December 11, 2007 I have completed my first semester of law school. That is over 1500 pages of black letter law, a few hundred pages of Lexis and Westlaw printings, another few hundred pages of from law journals, and numerous pages of other materials. I don't think that I read that much during my undergrad. Well, maybe I know I didn't read that much.

Now, as far as the tests... I don't think I have ever really been nervous about a test before either. Some may say that probably has to do with actually preparing. Those some are right. I will not argue. I did not really study before law school

Fortunately we are allowed to take tests by laptop, I don't think I could have written as much as I was able to type.

HOW TO NEGOTIATE

"Please, Please, do not refer to me ever"

UPDATES

Test #1 was on Tuesday. Torts. Impressions: seemed like a 4 hour test shoved into 2 hours, it was not difficult, but computer problems before taking it made things stressful. I feel pretty good about this one, I think I tagged the majority of the issues and I know my explanation of the issues was clear. Test #2 was on Thursday. Contracts. Impressions: seemed way too easy. Looking back I think it was supposed to be that easy too. I'm afraid that I tried to make it more than it was. As far as finding issues, I think I did well, as long as I didn't over do them. Test #3 - that's next Tuesday. Civil Procedure. What I know: This ought to be the most straight forward test we get. Our professor tends to present the fact pattern and then request an argument (e.g. Make the best legal argument to support application of the state of X's laws). Now as far as procrastination goes, mine is the good kind. "Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work."