Final Push

Well I'm like 36 hours away from the end of my first year of law school and I'm only posting because it's 2am and I've been asleep since 10pm (I would have kept sleeping, but I just can't) and I wanted to declare that I'm thankfully getting my sleep schedule a BIT more on track. It was my intention to study last night, but it was like all of a sudden I just couldn't keep my eyes open and I just HAD to sleep. I even set my alarm and went back to sleep anyway. So it's now 2am Thursday morning and I have about 24hrs (but ideally only about 22) before I should be in bed for my exam on Friday and I have a LOT of Property to study!

I think my plan is to work for about 5 hours and see how I feel, but my goal is to be as close to half-way through the materials as possible and I'll break for breakfast and then either keep going or nap for an hour or two (although that really runs the risk of putting myself back on a bad schedule).

As some of you know, the minute finals end -- or, more precisely, 2 hours after finals end -- our writing competition starts where we compete for spots on the different law journals by editing an article (mostly just fixing the footnotes so they conform to the famous Blue Book format) and writing a short piece based on the materials given to us in a big exam packet. We have a week to do it, and from what I've read about the competition at other schools, it's a BIT like preparing for another final in the sense that you should work on it about 8 hours a day for each day that you have available.

I am not totally hung up on the process, however, because I don't really care if I get selected for the main Law Review or not, and even if I don't make the Human Rights Law Review I'll still not really feel too bad about it at all.

Off to work! :)

VC