Angst....
I should be getting my memo back tomorrow. I've been operating with an anxiety induced knot in my stomach since I handed it in two weeks ago.
I'd be happy with a B. I can't bring myself to hope for anything more even though I know a B wouldn't justify the work I did on it.
This is definitely the most difficult aspect of law school.
The pressure.
IÂm sure every section feels this way, but I really feel mine has a disproportionate amount of really bright, motivated and hardworking students. I think at least half of my section (or more) was dressed up on the day of the scholarship awards. As undergraduate, this would have been a welcomed prospect, and I try to think that way now, but then you realize only two of us might get the A in legal writing. It makes you want to be in the stupid section.
Are there really "smart" sections and "stupid" sections?
I've heard they put scholarship students in sections together to weed them out...
Is this true?
I am not used to fighting for grades, having always done well thanks to hard work or inherent ability. IÂve realized that you can bust your ass, do everything exactly as you should and in the end it may not be enough to score the grades, law review, moot court, or the job you want. (A few 2LÂs have more than once alluded to this)
The work has become daunting. The pace of classes has picked up. Finals are looming on the horizon .
I'll read for five or six hours a day, finish everything for the next day and then realize I should be staying up and outlining or refining my outline instead of sleeping, eating. Watching a movie...
Breathing.
There is always something that could/should be doing, and if I'm not, someone else probably is.
I havn't seen any nasty competitive in-fighting yet.
Has anyone else?
Does it happen at BLS?
Now that winter is approaching and we have less and less daylight, there are days I leave my apartment when it's dark and get home well after the sun has set.
Looking forward to Christmas and New Year in Amersterdam...
I'd be happy with a B. I can't bring myself to hope for anything more even though I know a B wouldn't justify the work I did on it.
This is definitely the most difficult aspect of law school.
The pressure.
IÂm sure every section feels this way, but I really feel mine has a disproportionate amount of really bright, motivated and hardworking students. I think at least half of my section (or more) was dressed up on the day of the scholarship awards. As undergraduate, this would have been a welcomed prospect, and I try to think that way now, but then you realize only two of us might get the A in legal writing. It makes you want to be in the stupid section.
Are there really "smart" sections and "stupid" sections?
I've heard they put scholarship students in sections together to weed them out...
Is this true?
I am not used to fighting for grades, having always done well thanks to hard work or inherent ability. IÂve realized that you can bust your ass, do everything exactly as you should and in the end it may not be enough to score the grades, law review, moot court, or the job you want. (A few 2LÂs have more than once alluded to this)
The work has become daunting. The pace of classes has picked up. Finals are looming on the horizon .
I'll read for five or six hours a day, finish everything for the next day and then realize I should be staying up and outlining or refining my outline instead of sleeping, eating. Watching a movie...
Breathing.
There is always something that could/should be doing, and if I'm not, someone else probably is.
I havn't seen any nasty competitive in-fighting yet.
Has anyone else?
Does it happen at BLS?
Now that winter is approaching and we have less and less daylight, there are days I leave my apartment when it's dark and get home well after the sun has set.
Looking forward to Christmas and New Year in Amersterdam...
posted by Gryphen at 4:47 PM
3 Comments:
Great post.
I feel the same damn way all the time. I didn't even know why people were dressed up until I asked. Talk about feeling like your place in the class has already been solidified before you even set foot in here. They're scholarship winners, that must mean they are smarter, right?
I'd start on the outlines if I were you. I began on my torts one this weekend and it's time consuming. Good news is I find it more fun than reading.
I too wonder how they make the sections around here.
To non-1L's, how does it work with moot court and journals? You compete against your section or the whole 1L class?
If it weren't for the non-stop pressure and grade talk, I wouldn't mind law school. The material is somewhat interesting and will finally be useful (unlike the majority of college). The pressure is getting to be a bit much, though.
I started outline a couple of weeks ago.
But I always feel like I could be doing more. I hope to be "caught up" in all of my classes with the outline by the end of Thanksgiving weekend.
With the amount of people who live in the library and I never see, it's hard to feel like you do enough.
I have witnessed people I know who make comments about not sharing a worksheet with their own friends because of competition. I was taken aback by that. At least be friendly to your friends...
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