I finished up my Contracts (I) exam at 11:22pm. One down, 3 more to go. Or, 23 more plus the bar if you want to look at it that way.
It wasn’t so bad, really. We had been lead to expect the Most Insanely Difficult Exam. EVAR. by the gossip mill. It was a lot less hard than that. I got to cite Leonard v. Pepsico*, and who doesn’t love that?
Criminal law on friday. Looking forward to that one in a nerdy way.
Well, SIMS don’t get much more MP than this, but its big news in my brain, so… yeah.
*remember that kid who tried to buy a Harrier Jet with Pepsi points? That’s Leonard v. PepsiCo.
As I sit here preparing for my Con Law and Business Associations exams (or more accurately, stare at my outline and read the SDMB), I find that the tests are no longer a big deal. The apprehension from last year is gone. I have that first year of experience and the only really bad part about the exams is the hand cramps from writing for three hours.
So, my point is it only gets better from here. Good luck.
This seems incredibly late to be doing an exam. Was it a take home paper? What times are exams normally scheduled? Standard times here are 9.30am-12.30pm and 2.00pm-5.00pm
What I really enjoyed about my first semester’s finals as a 1L was getting back the grades, and realizing that my sense of how well I knew the material and how well I thought I did on the final had little or nothing to do with the grades I got.
From then on out it was “hook and go” baby!
And this is excellent preparation for trial practice, where how prepared you are and your sense of how the evidence went turns out to have little or nothing to do with the verdict handed out.
Don’t mind me, I used up all today’s brain power applying UCC 2-207 to offers and acceptances between non-merchants, with terms differing. I finished at 11:22 AM.
I just finished my first exam too! Well, not just, but this afternoon. Civil Procedure with Arthur Miller. It was a real bear. I did not get to talk about jump-jets, but I did get to talk about hovercrafts (which I think was supposed to be some sort of subtle pun on “minimum contacts”). Or maybe I’m just sleepy.
Good luck, you guys. A few friends finish their last final at Hastings on Friday, and I think we intend to visit the majority of bars in San Francisco on Saturday.
I woke up with two words ringing through my head this morning: mango venue. I tried to work it into the exam, but it didn’t happen. No idea why my brain picked mangos. I’m sure a resident psychoanalyst will come along and tell me it’s because of my mom.
Urgh. I had my first final on Tuesday, Civ Pro. I was generally well-prepared and confident.
Friday I have Con Law. Unlike most of my classmates, I’m also feeling reasonably confident on that one.
Monday I have Contracts. I am currently panicking over contracts, as my notes are a mess and I have no outline to speak of. I curse the person who came up with this horrible ‘CaseFile Method’ e-casebook we used. (I also curse me for not keeping better notes, heh.) Argh.
Arthur Miller–I do believe he’s going to be a visiting prof here next semester, teaching Advanced Civ Pro to 2Ls.
It has been almost 40 years since they released me on an unsuspecting populace and I still have that dream. Also the final exam in the course where you never attended the lectures or did the reading. Cold sweat at Three O’clock in the morning. There are fears you never escape.
Nah, Cincinnati. Now that I take a look at it, he’s just doing a week-long seminar, plus an “informal presentation.” I’ll have to try to make that–with it being the beginning of the semester, my schedule ought to be fairly well open.
I haven’t, no. The root of all my problems, I feel, with contracts, is the way the course has been taught, which has been pretty short on structure. Plus the cases just haven’t been as memorable as the biggies from conlaw or even civil procedure–with certain exceptions, of course, like Leonard v. Pepsico and ah, the kid who sued Time to the tune of multiple millions over a plastic wristwatch. Nor, to finish my bitch-session, does it help that this is the prof’s first year teaching at this school, so I’ve got very little guidance for what to expect. I think I’m gonna swing by the bookstore tomorrow and see if they’ve got the Crunchtime for Ks.
