Schedule

So in your first year, the school determines your schedule.  They place you in a section and you spend your entire first year with those same roughly 70 people. So for this semester I was assigned to take Torts, Criminal Law, Basic Civil Procedure I, Contracts, Legal Research and Writing I and Legal Traditions and Systems.  This last class is one that is only required to be taken at my particular law school.  This is going to be a long semester.  At least I know this time around to make sure that I keep doing the things that keep me sane.  That means I still take my belly dance lessons, I still do my cast workshops for the Renaissance Festival.

One thing I fully intend to do differently is make my own outlines.  I relied entirely too much on other people's outlines from an outline bank the last time.  I need to make my own in order to put the information in my mind to recall it on the final exam.  I was given an opportunity for a new start and I have no intentions of wasting it.  I fought way too hard to get to where I am today to make the same mistakes I made the last time. Insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result.

So I have classes at 9 am every day of the week.  Not a terrible time to have to be at school.  I am not in the same section I was in the first time so I have to get mostly new books.  I do also have mostly new teachers. A couple of them I have before in other classes.  My civil procedure teacher was also my evidence teacher.  My criminal law professor was my international criminal law professor (UGH!).  My Legal Research and Writing professor is the same.  I did write an email to her and explain the situation.  Her response made me feel considerably better.  She told me that she completely admired my tenacity and conviction and not to worry about anyone's timeline but my own.