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| Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| Where is the Line? |
I had a professor in my first year of law school who I purposefully took a class from in my 3rd, b/c I liked her so much.
A couple of weeks ago, I was walking through the park with the girls, and I ran into her. It was the weekend before exams. (And a funny side story, b/c I am Zuska, while I was on the way to cello with the girls, a school-friend called to ask me a question about either IP or Securities, and I said, "well, I have that answer in my outline, but I'm actually on the T with the girls right now, heading to cello practice" and my friend was all aflutter. It hadn't occurred to her that the weekend before exams could be spent doing anything but exams, and was quite thrown off. She told me the next day that she told her mom about the phone call, and that she felt bad for "interrupting" my mom-duties. Her mom told her - you are always doing mom-duties. It's not really an "interruption" to bring something else up, otherwise, you'd never do anything else!)
Anyway. My professor.
She told me that day that she had moved to the area, and that we're now in the same neighborhood.
I saw her again today.
Today, she has my exam in her possession, and will be grading it shortly, if not already. It is a blind grading for exams, but not for the overall class as a whole (i.e., class participation, the mid term drafting project we did, etc.)
So I didn't talk to her much. I said hi and some cordial statement about the weather and the bar, but I didn't engage in a conversation. It felt like it would be weird, if not completely inappropriate.
The other day, Beloved found a really funny ditty on Parody as Fair Use in Copyright Law, and I wanted to send it to this professor, b/c she had used some mixed media in the class, and this would have been f-u-n-n-y. But then last minute, I threw away the e-mail, b/c --- well, I remembered she has my exam.
I'm thinking I was right to ditch the e-mail, but probably could have done more chatting in the park.Labels: professors |
posted by Zuska @ 10:00 PM   |
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| Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| a breakthrough deserves a break |
i'm home today, working on my brief and my argument for tomorrow. my brief is not technically due until Monday, but i need my weekend for tax. ugh. tax.
my brief has not been going so well. i really hate this class (appellate advocacy), and it's been hard to give it my all. we had a draft due 3 weeks ago, and i gave it 1/10th of my all, and the professor gushed all over it as if it were the best thing he'd ever seen, so now it's hard to even give it 1/10th of my all.
one problem is that he basically laid out our argument for us ... and it didn't make sense to me. he handed us supporting cases, and the appropriate law to apply. this makes it boring for me. i am not really a huge fan of legal writing, but when it's a vehicle to make an argument, i can do it well. but now i feel like i'm just filling in blanks, and going through the motions, b/c i'm not doing my own research really.
i also think that the 1/2 the case he gave me are woefully inapplicable. woefully.
so, i've reorganized the issues, and now it makes sense to me. i added my own argument, which i think is deserving of its own pointheading, and he thought was just a supporting argument to one of HIS point-headings, and i'm changing it.
that makes me feel like this thing makes sense now, and so i'm happy.
i don't think it will hurt me in the end that i'm not following his model. my model is really only a slight variation.
and it makes it so that i can write this brief at all, so ....
break's over.Labels: law school, professors |
| posted by Zuska @ 10:03 AM |
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