Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a finals lover. I flee the exam room as soon as possible without looking back or even acknowledging my closest friends. I would rather be a 5th grader having “the talk” with my mother than talk to anyone about the test I just took. I have a rotation of answers for when people ask me how an exam was, and they are, “ugh,” “it’s over,” and a stare that Medusa could learn from. I don’t look at my notes after the final to see what I got wrong or right and, when I have a flashback of any idiocy I included on my exam, I audibly groan and attempt to induce amnesia. All of that being said, there are a few things about finals I don’t completely despise. Keep Reading ⇒
Brace yourselves, played-out memes about exams are coming. Sean Bean’s biggest worry may be portraying a convincing death for whatever character he’s playing at the time, but for those of us in law school the big nasty is always going to be exams (or job interviews, which I’d prefer not to talk about at the moment . . . ). As we’re all scurrying to prepare for exams, here’s a quick and dirty field guide to the most common types of law school exams.
Study groups are not for everyone and they aren’t for every class. But at least once in law school, almost everyone finds themselves attending some form of a voluntary group study session. While some study groups seem open to new people showing up and others seem to require sponsorship by a current member and proof of your projected contribution, most study groups are made up of more or less the same personalities. Note: these personalities are not mutually exclusive. Keep Reading ⇒
1You’ve lost all semblance of anything close to a “normal” sleep schedule and catch yourself brewing coffee at midnight and going to bed “for the night” at seven am.
2You’ve lost all sense of “normal business hours” and try to go Christmas shopping or to the post office at 1am, immediately after perfecting an outline.
3You have no idea what day of the week it is—except it’s not a day on which you have a final.
4You have friends and classmates who have completely disappeared, witness protection style. No one has seen or heard from these people since your last class together and you only see them at the actual exam. They somehow vanish before you even turn in your test booklet. Keep Reading ⇒
It’s the beginning of the winter harvest in law school, otherwise known as first semester final exams. It’s that time of the year where, to paraphrase Anne Lamott, you truly become the piece of shit the world revolves around. And if you’ve come to Bitter Lawyer for advice on how to do well at final exams, well, know one thing: we outsource all of it. To our parental unit known as Lawyerist.
Not that we haven’t had our own tips and advice floating around the last few years, including Ex-Bitter’s typically pithy advice to a first-year student freaked out about finals. The money line? “Studying last year’s essay questions is way more important than joining some lame, self-important study group where everyone’s trying to impress each other.” Yes, and stay away from the “self-proclaimed legal geniuses.” And no drinking while studying. Huh? Keep Reading ⇒
Finals are one week away and professors are still conducting classes. If you planned ahead, you have hoarded your absences so you can skip class now. And we’re skipping a couple of weeks and will be back with Mr. Law School’s Y3S1 finale on December 19.
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