law school lessons: week 4
Four solid weeks of law school and I’m still standing. Must give credit where credit’s due.
nectar of the gods
BREAKING: we’re all gonna die!! Ninja School of Law has announced a special swine flu policy for this semester. Basically, they’ve realized that the current policy of allowing five absences before your grade gets docked will result in people coming to school while ill. And believe me, if one person comes to the law school with the swine flu, we’re all bound to get it, because it’s like we’re all up in each other’s faces all day long. So, the new policy is that if you have a fever and flu/cold symptoms, DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL. Email or call your professors and inform them of your impending porkishness, and your absences during that time will not be counted against you. They don’t even require a doctor’s note for this. Obviously it’s an Honor Code violation to fake the swine flu, plus it’s just not really that good of an idea to start with, but I have no doubt someone will do it. I’m really glad they did this because I was worried about what would happen if Ninja Kid and I both wind up with the swine flu. Now I feel a little bettah, but I’m still gonna start wearing one of these just for good measure.
And now it’s time for Law School Terms of the Week!
1. executrix: what disgraced former CEOs and stock market swindlers (should) have to do in order to get money
2. mensch: shorthand, slang term for something one says in passing; e.g., If I see him, I’ll mensch that you think he’s cute.
3. hereinbefore: where one puts one’s marker in order to win at bingo
TORTS
- Gah. Negligence. All we ever talk about any more is negligence. What happened to the good ol’ days when we talked about pushing and hitting and throwing and trespassing and imprisoning and inflicting and placing in apprehension? Still, the reading is the easiest of the three substantive classes and Prof. Torts is still taking volunteers.
- Prof. Torts is supposed to be making up a little practice exam question for us. He said we should try to do it within a timeframe of about 45 minutes to an hour and without consulting our book or our notes, in order to best simulate the real exam environment. I’m anxious to have a look-see at this practice exam, although I think I have a pretty good idea what a Torts exam might look like. Anyway, it’s optional whether we turn it in or not, but if we do he’ll grade it and write all over it so we can see just how badly we suck at taking exams.
CONTRACTS
- Gah. How boring can one subject be?!?! Seriously. All I have to do is just glance at my Contracts books and it’s like an instant coma. Plus, I’m completely lost in there all of a sudden. I spent all day Saturday on Contracts and it. was. brutal.
- Prof. K was really only funny for one day this week. Suffice it to say it involved a talking Dr. Evil doll and something about adventures in urination with kidney stones. Don’t ask.
LEGAL PRACTICE
- Gah. So much going on in this class all of a sudden. ICW exercises. Closed memo draft. Video tutorial re secondary sources. Research path #1. Client interview questions (by the way, I have no idea what we’re supposed to be interviewing about). Writing proficiency exam. Library computer session for research tutorial. I’m not making any of this up. Oh, don’t forget the 3783 pages of reading and probably a quiz or two.
- But, fantabulous Prof. LP makes it all bettah with a little chocolate birthday cake therapy.
CIVIL PROCEDURE
- Okay you guys should probably sit down before you proceed. Ready? I really like CivPro. There, I said it. I’ll say it again: I really, really like CivPro. It just makes sense all of a sudden. Which is weird because for the first two weeks I had no clue what was going on in there. No frakkin clue. I fully expect that this warm, fuzzy feeling will be short-lived, but for now I will wallow in it. Don’t judge.
- Prof. CivPro has almost made the rounds, so probably by the end of next week everybody will be fair game to be called upon again. I’m going to step waaaay out on a limb here and make a totally wild prediction: My warm, fuzzy feelings about this class will fade in conjunction with my being called upon again. Ha ha! Didn’t see that one coming, did you? Well, what can I say? I’m all about living on the edge
Sorry, I have no clever picture to go here.
I promise I’m going to try to start posting more frequently than just once a week. Gah.
“solid week of law school” Since you’ve read my blog, you’ll understand why this made me laugh.
Are you at the battle of the forms section in K yet? I thought I understood K and now 2-207 has me thoroughly confused.
Ah Torts. We haven’t covered anything but negligence so far. It’s odd how different the same class becomes at different schools. Don’t worry, neg. can get really complex once you factor in the complex issue of duty.
Stay away from the H1N1 please.
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master ninja Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
You’re right. I should have said “four fluid weeks of law school.” Much more appropos.
Battle of the forms? Sounds exciting! Who wins? Is there bloodshed?
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ICW. I never thought you could dislike an acronym.
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master ninja Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Here’s another one: WACWTSAFN.
What A Crappy Way To Spend A Friday Night.
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If §2-207 Battle of the Forms questions were determined by gladiatorial combat, they would be far easier to understand.
Welcome to fluid week 5 of law school.
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