5.10.2006
The Mess
My kitchen counter is piled with empty wrappers, paper plates, and plastic bags. The floor of my living area is scattered with piles of papers and binders related to each subject area that I have finished an examination in. My table is filled with lawyering materials: outlines, class notes, flow charts to prepare me for the six hour take home exam on Friday. I think time is going to be a real issue during the take home exam. If there are four questions, and I spend an hour on each question, that only leaves two hours to review, revise, edit and travel to the law school to turn the exam in. Now, you might think that an hour per question seems like a long time, but to be honest, we’ve never had an essay exam with a question that takes less than an hour (and sometimes they take two hours). Additionally, we have the added constraint of a page limit (I think), which means that review and revision are going to be pivotal to fitting everything in. I’m not trying to complain, I just want to honestly assess what the six hours will be like, rather than having the mentality that I have “all day” to work on it. At any rate, I am very nearly officially done with my first year of law school and two full weeks of finals hell.
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You could find a quiet place on campus to do the work (rather than in your normal abode) so that the travel time is nearly nil.
I thought about that. . . but with 150ish students under the same deadline I fear the line for the printer at due time might eat up any saved travel time. Plus, with travel time, I know when I have to stop to make it there. With the school printers, I might end up in the building but unable to make the deadline. Not a risk I am willing to take.
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