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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Studying angst
It's always like this. While feeling like a lonely hermit and studying for finals, I suddenly become aware of all sorts of fun, social things that I'm missing out on. My imagination runs wild and suddenly everyone is doing fun, life-changingly cool stuff, and I feel like I've been forgotten, or at least just not called because I'm unavailable. I always had late finals during college, and the parties always started while I still had lots of studying to do.
The loneliness could be mitigated by studying with friends, but it isn't smart to change your strategy late in the game. I've had one consistent study partner all year, so I think that meeting with her when I can is better than trying to study with people whose study habits I don't know. And anyway, talking with most people has just freaked me out recently, and vice versa. No one wants to talk with someone who has studied something you haven't.
A rumor of an honor code violation by a classmate has pissed me off, and made me feel even more competitive towards my classmates. The bad thing about first year grades in law school is that there is a strict, mandatory curve. Only 10-15% of students in a class can get an A. In a class of about a hundred that certainly isn't many. And even less in our legal writing sections of 25.
The solution? Keep working kiddo.
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Definitely don't talk to people before finals, unless you're studying with them.
Also, the curves apply to classes that have more than 25 students. I don't know what they do in legal writing, but mine didn't have a curve.
Don't hate people, just isolate yourself from them for two weeks. And don't worry about honor code violators, because only the stupid ones do that, and they'll still get worse grades than you!
Good luck!
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Also, the curves apply to classes that have more than 25 students. I don't know what they do in legal writing, but mine didn't have a curve.
Don't hate people, just isolate yourself from them for two weeks. And don't worry about honor code violators, because only the stupid ones do that, and they'll still get worse grades than you!
Good luck!
