Loxley (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} goodluckfox) wrote,@ 2009-06-23 21:53:00 |
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BarBri Day 20 and 21
Some day I am going to look back at all this and *laugh*.
But not today.
Yesterday was Corporations. I know Corporations. Besides which, I evaluated my current progress in my current subject. After 120 Evidence questions, I was getting around 56% correct. Okay, no problem, I'm just getting started good, and passing is really only a bit better than 50%, so I'm not really in too bad shape... and then I checked my performance against the performance of five thousand OTHER law students studying for the Bar.
I was in the bottom 25%. Yeeeeaaaahhh... O.o
So, I paniced, and skipped Corporations and studied more Evidence.
Tonight was the Multistate Performance Test lecture. Professor Property's Case File Method is pretty much the same thing, so I'm prolly good to go there, although I think the tips the lecture pointed out will be useful (keep in mind the audience you're writing for, look for them to tell you how they want it answered because that's the only way they can hope to grade a whole bunch of answers, etc).
There is no BarBri for me for the next week or so. Therefore, I'll be studying at the library or something when I get off work.
In work news, tomorrow I'm taking a Skills Certification Test that I'm really not worried about passing. I haven't been trained sufficiently yet, so I kind of hope I don't pass, lest they try to use the fact that I passed to justify calling me fully trained and hold me fully accountable to a production standard. If I *do* pass it, it'll be a 500 dollar bonus on an upcoming check... which would be nice, cuz it would go a long way toward paying for my hotel room that i'm going to need when it comes Bar time.
Oh, and speaking of actually TAKING the Bar, I don't have confirmation yet that I'll actually be sitting for the Bar. I expect I will. They took my money. I turned my application in, completed this time, after the first deadline that lets you automatically sit for the bar, but before the second deadline where they may or may not let you sit this go-round. I have done literally all I could do. The Board of Bar Admissions meets day after tomorrow where they'll make their decisions about people who filed late. If they don't let me sit for it this go-round, I'm going to be rather cross. :)
In totally unrelated news, this weekend is Amateur Radio Field Day. Go to your public parks and look for 80 year old nerds playing with radios and antennae. I plan on shooting a short Youtube video about the local ham radio folks on Saturday. It'll be my extracurricular activity. It's sort of a radio nerd holiday, where everybody takes their radio gear and they practice setting up somewhere, simulating a disaster response (operating off of generators, setting up temporary antennae, seeing what equipment works and how far they can communicate). It's practice. The great thing about ham radio is that when the phone lines and cable television and cell phones and even over-the-air television stop working, the amateur's gear still works and they can deploy a complete communication network worldwide if they have to.
Ok, I'm exhausted and starting to ramble. BED!
Some day I am going to look back at all this and *laugh*.
But not today.
Yesterday was Corporations. I know Corporations. Besides which, I evaluated my current progress in my current subject. After 120 Evidence questions, I was getting around 56% correct. Okay, no problem, I'm just getting started good, and passing is really only a bit better than 50%, so I'm not really in too bad shape... and then I checked my performance against the performance of five thousand OTHER law students studying for the Bar.
I was in the bottom 25%. Yeeeeaaaahhh... O.o
So, I paniced, and skipped Corporations and studied more Evidence.
Tonight was the Multistate Performance Test lecture. Professor Property's Case File Method is pretty much the same thing, so I'm prolly good to go there, although I think the tips the lecture pointed out will be useful (keep in mind the audience you're writing for, look for them to tell you how they want it answered because that's the only way they can hope to grade a whole bunch of answers, etc).
There is no BarBri for me for the next week or so. Therefore, I'll be studying at the library or something when I get off work.
In work news, tomorrow I'm taking a Skills Certification Test that I'm really not worried about passing. I haven't been trained sufficiently yet, so I kind of hope I don't pass, lest they try to use the fact that I passed to justify calling me fully trained and hold me fully accountable to a production standard. If I *do* pass it, it'll be a 500 dollar bonus on an upcoming check... which would be nice, cuz it would go a long way toward paying for my hotel room that i'm going to need when it comes Bar time.
Oh, and speaking of actually TAKING the Bar, I don't have confirmation yet that I'll actually be sitting for the Bar. I expect I will. They took my money. I turned my application in, completed this time, after the first deadline that lets you automatically sit for the bar, but before the second deadline where they may or may not let you sit this go-round. I have done literally all I could do. The Board of Bar Admissions meets day after tomorrow where they'll make their decisions about people who filed late. If they don't let me sit for it this go-round, I'm going to be rather cross. :)
In totally unrelated news, this weekend is Amateur Radio Field Day. Go to your public parks and look for 80 year old nerds playing with radios and antennae. I plan on shooting a short Youtube video about the local ham radio folks on Saturday. It'll be my extracurricular activity. It's sort of a radio nerd holiday, where everybody takes their radio gear and they practice setting up somewhere, simulating a disaster response (operating off of generators, setting up temporary antennae, seeing what equipment works and how far they can communicate). It's practice. The great thing about ham radio is that when the phone lines and cable television and cell phones and even over-the-air television stop working, the amateur's gear still works and they can deploy a complete communication network worldwide if they have to.
Ok, I'm exhausted and starting to ramble. BED!
