Here's how my law school classes are set up:
Three core classes (property, torts, civ pro in the fall and contracts, constitutional law, and crim in the spring) that meet three times a week
Legal writing meets once a week, all year
SJ meets once a week, all year
The premise behind the SJ project, and what I'm telling admitted students over the phone, is that you get to do pro bono work as a 1L, which is an opportunity you won't get anywhere else. The downside is, the project takes over your life. I'm working on the project with the twelve other members of Law Office 1. I don't particularly love our subject, but that's another issue entirely. My problem with SJ in general, and many of my classmates agree with me, is all the meetings and research and editing are taking away from my time to prepare for contracts, con law, and crim. This is worsened by the fact that our advisor just said we needed to restructure our paper, and gave us a two week extension when the project was supposed to be over yesterday. I want to do well in my core classes, and I've cut back on rugby to spend more time on school, and I'm spending it all on SJ. AHHHHHHHH
Justin was visiting this weekend, and normally I'd have fun tidbits about a new place we visited. But I don't, because I spent the whole weekend in the library. Justin went to the Extreme Beer Fest and I did SJ and my FAFSA.
Well, that's not entirely true. Two hours before his flight left, we went to the Barking Crab and I had my first lobstah roll - actually, a lobstah BLT. It was delicious, and huge!
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