It’s official – I just submitted my last exam and it’s summer, baby!
Looking back on this semester, I could never have expected it to go the way it did. It may have moved Project 1 to the fall, but I’m in good spirits.
As many of you know, this semester was a pass/fail for me, so I was just working for a pass instead of an A. My school did also announce honors pass which is designated for the top 30% of the passes. It’s weird, but that’s what snotty lawyers do. They want the accolades.
The switch to pass/fail most definitely changed my study techniques. I basically decided to back end the semester and put the bulk of my studying around my exams. Choosing to absorb so much material in so little time was a risk, but I’m prone to forgetting information pretty quickly. I feared that without exposure to the concepts in actual classes, I would forget ideas right away.
So my technique was to create an outline to use on the finals. Since the exams were open-book and open-note, I focused on improving the tools I had for the exams. That seemed to work pretty well. I’m fairly confident I passed all of my classes, but I wouldn’t bank on any honors passes.
Now that I’m on summer break, I’m not out of the woods yet. There’s still the journal write-on competition. Being a part of a journal and getting your work published is a big deal for law students, myself including. After your first year, you get an opportunity to compete for a spot on the journals in a three-week writing competition. The competition starts Monday. I’ll give more details once I start (seeing as I’m a little fried right now from exam mush brain). But nevertheless, I’m very excited for the competition.
Anyway, just wanted to share my mini-successes with you all. Hope you all are in just as good of spirits as I am!


Congratulations on finishing law school! Sounds like you came up with a customised plan to get all your studying done, and that’s so great!
All the best for getting published in the journal!
Also, I just found your blog, and I really like the way you write! Your book reviews were so good! Looking forward to reading more from you!
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Thank you for the kind words! Unfortunately, I just finished my first year, so I’ve got another two to go! Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be checking out your stuff soon – you know what they say, birds of a feather, am I right!?
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Ahh, my bad! I think I must’ve accidentally not typed first year!
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