Well, that’s a wrap.

I’ve finished all my exams for the third semester of law school – It’s like I’m ½ a lawyer now.  Ack!  Probably the bottom half.

Well, this round of exams went well.  In some ways it’s kind of nice to be tucked away with only one responsibility (study!) and a house stocked full of veggie chili, soup and other odds and ends to get you through the period from the end of Thanksgiving until today.  In other ways, obviously, it sucks.

Post exam round 3, I feel a bit more collected than I did from the first two.  I feel like I had a better idea of what was expected of me this time through.  Is it no longer being in Section 3, is it having the mystical 7 exams under my belt already, is it the subject matter and content of my classes, some unknown factor, or a combination of all of the above?

While I can’t talk about the substance of the exams, I can say that I thought they were all fair, that I didn’t feel as though the professors were being sneaky on any of them. 

I wrote (and deleted) a long ramble on Section 3 and the previous tests I took.  I think I’m drifting into that 2L check-out phase.  Or perhaps I’m just tired.  Even though I look at the whole 1L experience and am glad for it (largely because of my class-mates), I still have the conviction that the program could be so much better with a few more tweaks, a bit more pedagological transparency, and, if for whatever, reason our ‘radical’ curriculum can’t transcend the standard law school exam, a bit more on what’s expected of the students.  I think the basic problem is the structure and the professors presume too much; for if we posit that Sec3 is heavily influenced by the Crits, it suffers from that insofar as its approach assumes knowledge of an existing system to be critiqued (and it’s that system we’ll be graded on), and a lack of a unified reconstructive project.  Don’t get me wrong – it’s great stuff, but it’s like starting lit. freshmen on Derrida without giving them any kind of exposure to New Criticism.

So anyway, that’s the short form of the ramble.

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Now I have to go and take care of all the things I’ve been putting off doing for the past few weeks.  One of those things was to go on a long long bike ride; however, given that I think I have a head-cold brewing, I’m going to do a few hours on the stationary bike – not my favorite, but it’ll keep my lungs more clear.

I also want to do a review of Paul Guest’s book.  It came in the mail just the other day and was welcome (and needed!) after exam reading. 

Sigh – so many small errand things.  But it’s always a pleasure to be able to *do* something that has a concrete and immediate resolution.