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vicarzDr. says I'm fine, just wait to get better. Problems stemming from the muscle being worn out, so all the other ones are working overtime to cover for it. It's odd - I now have one hard boobie, and one soft boobie that is constantly twitching. I also have developed a mild carpal-tunnel thing for similar reasons. It seems a while after my neck/back heals the rest will fall into place (hope that theory is right).
Nothing is more boring than a medical issue post. Except perhaps this (for me more than any audiance I would pretend to have):
The Dean is retiring from his position :(
K
I just met with my contracts prof (yes the hot one) to go over my exam, though we really just sat there talking for like an hour. She seems to think I have a knack for law, and should perhaps not rule out working in a practice after all. She notes that there are in fact practices which not only have normal work-week lawyers (on average, there are always emergencies now and then), but have seperate tracks for low and high hour lawyers. Neat!
Obviously I fooled her because she thought I was smart and wrote well. Yeah. This from a law prof. Maybe she was high? I'm not in the top third of the class, ya know? Maybe I possess phermones that drive her senses out the window. Hmm...she also had bobble-head judges in her office, and an Ikea-looking lamp.
Um, I'm happy. It turns out my answer for the first exam question got the highest score in the class. She said it was obvious from reading my writing that I knew the law, analyzed well, and wrote very well. She added that she meant that, not just saying. I only got a friggin B, but at least she doesn't think I'm an idiot (or she's a good liar and I bought it hook-line-sinker). I went over a line limit on a major question, and an important section was in my cut-off, oops! She cringed over the points knowing I knew the issue. The last one I just didn't do as well as the other but was above the curve. I ran out of time so it wasn't as polished.
Notes for future exams:
1) I nailed structure. Lay out law, match facts to it clearly, then analogize cases. She said it was obvious I was a good writer, that I laid out the law from the beginning and smoothly matched the RELEVANT case facts to the law well. This is what I need to focus on THROUGHOUT the exam - towards the end I got sloppy (tired)?
2) She thought it was clear I knew the law. I think she was fooled - well no, I thought I knew it too, but still no A. On my weakest answer I mixed UCC elements with others, ick.
3) Nailed case analyses too
4) practice more on time issues - it's not enough to practice issue spotting, practice whipping out an answer in real-time typing. It's harder than just getting the gist of it.
Ugh, nothing really learned, only I did better than I thought had I not panicked a little. We spent most of the time talking about careers in law, chicken inspectors in gummint, GALLA, and other law-ish stuff that wasn't really important. I still think she'd be great to talk to in general. I'm almost looking forward to not being in her class so I could talk with no fear of anyone ever thinking I was trying to influence my grade or something. I'm paranoid. I don't think she would ever be influenced though, but if I mentioned foamy the squirrel in an answer it would look really sketchy of me.
I told her my story about my favorite quote: "you were seen in the employee parking lot in your car with someone whose legs and shoes were seen in the air. Not only does that give the appearance of a conflict of interest situation, but I can think of no appropriate activity that would result in that sort of position during your tour of duty for the USDA." Unlike most, she had an immediate answer: birth would have explained this situation! Damn, told you she was sharp!
Note - she has/had dyslexia. One more person who doesn't whine about how their 'disability' keeps them from getting ahead.
I had so much more to write but it all died out...
Dean (former) Grady:
The Torts exam wasn't available for review, but I was told I could stop by the Dean's to review it at any time. I double-checked and they confirmed. I went to the Dean's office and spoke to his assistant outside the door. He went into the office, and then called me in as he wasn't sure how to spell my name.
Much to my embarrassment I had to follow him, interrupting the Dean. His office was sparsely decorated, with bobble-head judges on a cabinet, US News & WR showing each year's law school ranking on one wall, and modest office furniture circling a coffee table. I told them I didn't need to see the mult-choice, just the essay. He pulled the essay and I scanned it outside the office.
I didn't notice anything in particular that clued me in as to why my essay was lower than my mult part, just a check here and a ? there. I handed it back to the assistant and said thanks, and the assistant asked me if I wanted to make an appt. I said I had to check my work schedule, but asked if there were any evenings the Dean was in. He said he was often there evenings, so I said thanx, returned the exam, and said I'd check back when I knew my schedule better.
I was half-way down the hall when the assistant came running after me, and said the Dean would see me now!? I said I hadn't asked and didn't mean to bother him, but he had apparently listened in from his office and asked him to fetch me. So I returned, was handed my exam, and Dean Grady moved from around the desk to sit with me in the tandem seating around the coffee table. He went over the exam, not displeased but he noted that I had really stuck to glosses (he even noted a strong one that he had missed the first time he saw it?) but he was more interested in facts that distinguished and those that glossed well.
Note on Tort exam - glosses for theory, but focus essays on facts - analogize close facts first then distinguish on glosses.
My essay was a decent B, and he asked what I got on the exam. I admitted I had received an A. He looked at my essay exam and noted that I must have aced the mult, which I admitted I had pretty much done. He seemed impressed, theorizing that I must be there to try and improve my essay grade since overall I got an A anyway (I confirmed). He said anyone that got an A in his class he would be happy to write a recommendation for!
Nothing is more boring than a medical issue post. Except perhaps this (for me more than any audiance I would pretend to have):
The Dean is retiring from his position :(
K
I just met with my contracts prof (yes the hot one) to go over my exam, though we really just sat there talking for like an hour. She seems to think I have a knack for law, and should perhaps not rule out working in a practice after all. She notes that there are in fact practices which not only have normal work-week lawyers (on average, there are always emergencies now and then), but have seperate tracks for low and high hour lawyers. Neat!
Obviously I fooled her because she thought I was smart and wrote well. Yeah. This from a law prof. Maybe she was high? I'm not in the top third of the class, ya know? Maybe I possess phermones that drive her senses out the window. Hmm...she also had bobble-head judges in her office, and an Ikea-looking lamp.
Um, I'm happy. It turns out my answer for the first exam question got the highest score in the class. She said it was obvious from reading my writing that I knew the law, analyzed well, and wrote very well. She added that she meant that, not just saying. I only got a friggin B, but at least she doesn't think I'm an idiot (or she's a good liar and I bought it hook-line-sinker). I went over a line limit on a major question, and an important section was in my cut-off, oops! She cringed over the points knowing I knew the issue. The last one I just didn't do as well as the other but was above the curve. I ran out of time so it wasn't as polished.
Notes for future exams:
1) I nailed structure. Lay out law, match facts to it clearly, then analogize cases. She said it was obvious I was a good writer, that I laid out the law from the beginning and smoothly matched the RELEVANT case facts to the law well. This is what I need to focus on THROUGHOUT the exam - towards the end I got sloppy (tired)?
2) She thought it was clear I knew the law. I think she was fooled - well no, I thought I knew it too, but still no A. On my weakest answer I mixed UCC elements with others, ick.
3) Nailed case analyses too
4) practice more on time issues - it's not enough to practice issue spotting, practice whipping out an answer in real-time typing. It's harder than just getting the gist of it.
Ugh, nothing really learned, only I did better than I thought had I not panicked a little. We spent most of the time talking about careers in law, chicken inspectors in gummint, GALLA, and other law-ish stuff that wasn't really important. I still think she'd be great to talk to in general. I'm almost looking forward to not being in her class so I could talk with no fear of anyone ever thinking I was trying to influence my grade or something. I'm paranoid. I don't think she would ever be influenced though, but if I mentioned foamy the squirrel in an answer it would look really sketchy of me.
I told her my story about my favorite quote: "you were seen in the employee parking lot in your car with someone whose legs and shoes were seen in the air. Not only does that give the appearance of a conflict of interest situation, but I can think of no appropriate activity that would result in that sort of position during your tour of duty for the USDA." Unlike most, she had an immediate answer: birth would have explained this situation! Damn, told you she was sharp!
Note - she has/had dyslexia. One more person who doesn't whine about how their 'disability' keeps them from getting ahead.
I had so much more to write but it all died out...
Dean (former) Grady:
The Torts exam wasn't available for review, but I was told I could stop by the Dean's to review it at any time. I double-checked and they confirmed. I went to the Dean's office and spoke to his assistant outside the door. He went into the office, and then called me in as he wasn't sure how to spell my name.
Much to my embarrassment I had to follow him, interrupting the Dean. His office was sparsely decorated, with bobble-head judges on a cabinet, US News & WR showing each year's law school ranking on one wall, and modest office furniture circling a coffee table. I told them I didn't need to see the mult-choice, just the essay. He pulled the essay and I scanned it outside the office.
I didn't notice anything in particular that clued me in as to why my essay was lower than my mult part, just a check here and a ? there. I handed it back to the assistant and said thanks, and the assistant asked me if I wanted to make an appt. I said I had to check my work schedule, but asked if there were any evenings the Dean was in. He said he was often there evenings, so I said thanx, returned the exam, and said I'd check back when I knew my schedule better.
I was half-way down the hall when the assistant came running after me, and said the Dean would see me now!? I said I hadn't asked and didn't mean to bother him, but he had apparently listened in from his office and asked him to fetch me. So I returned, was handed my exam, and Dean Grady moved from around the desk to sit with me in the tandem seating around the coffee table. He went over the exam, not displeased but he noted that I had really stuck to glosses (he even noted a strong one that he had missed the first time he saw it?) but he was more interested in facts that distinguished and those that glossed well.
Note on Tort exam - glosses for theory, but focus essays on facts - analogize close facts first then distinguish on glosses.
My essay was a decent B, and he asked what I got on the exam. I admitted I had received an A. He looked at my essay exam and noted that I must have aced the mult, which I admitted I had pretty much done. He seemed impressed, theorizing that I must be there to try and improve my essay grade since overall I got an A anyway (I confirmed). He said anyone that got an A in his class he would be happy to write a recommendation for!
