Thursday, January 7, 2010

First Run

Well, having been to all of my classes at least once so far (not bad for day 2), it looks like this semester will be interesting, to say the least. It's a huge help that I know someone in every single class; in one class alone I'm in there with 4 people I have taken classes with before. I love that about UPB. I remember going to classes at the school that I transferred from (a looong time ago) and having class in an auditorium with 200 other people. I'll definitely miss my tiny 30-person classes.

I ended up getting the unabridged audiobook for Uncle Tom's Cabin, which I listen to while I read the book. It makes the "gullah" dialect SO much easier to understand and read.

Constitutional Law class has a great new adjunct who is just hilarious. Definitely makes the class livelier, and since there are 8 or 9 aspiring attorneys in class, he is running it like Law School Light. We're writing case notes, discussing issues, doing a load of reading, and arguing a case in front of a mock Supreme Court (where everyone has a role!)

Two of my classes have group projects, which are okay, but gives me a fair amount of anxiety that everyone isn't going to pull their weight and the others have to suffer for it grade-wise. I'm hopeful that my group people will want to get an A on the projects at hand.

So far, my snooziest class is World Regional Geography, but I've only had one class. I've started the term project assignment, so I'm 1/10th the way finished with that.

On the homefront, I have plans for spring break, mostly involving visiting Widener Law and Dickenson Law, then spending a couple of days in DC hitting museums with Nanne (and maybe another law school. ssh.)