I’m just going to write a bit before I begin my work. I just finished the book “How to get into Law school” by Susan Estrich. Amazing, thoughtful, insightful, honest book on the whole process involved with going to law school. I hope she’s as honest as she sounds because she definitely convinced me that law school is where I want to be. What kind of law do I want to practice exactly? I can figure that out later. At the moment all my thoughts need to be turned to the LSAT. The single most deciding factor in the whole law school admissions process. The other important factors in order are GPA, personal statement, recommendations, and extracurricular.
I have a good amount of homework I need to begin on. I have a cognitive psychology test tomorrow… not exactly thrilled about it, but not too concerned. The teacher is a PhD from Harvard… but I swear to got she’s got some kind of cognitive degenerative disease… either that or her kids totally made her fry out. The class itself its drier that dirt. Any material discussed in class is directly out of the book. Creative discussion? Derived and guided by the book. No room for creative discourse. I should say that this is her first year teaching cognitive psychology… I should also say that she has a PhD in education. She’s a mom now. She must have stopped learning as soon as she had kids. She’s technologically illiterate… totally handicapped. Some classes require a full 30 minutes of her figuring out her computer or how the projector works before we begin… or her explaining (or justifying) in some totally nonsensical and unnecessary way her decision to change her plans for the day’s course. I want to slit myself in her class. Considering that psychology has been a passion of mine, and I was planning on double majoring it, its surprising the contempt I have for the subject when I walk into her classroom. Also- I despise teachers who shell out a ridiculous amount of homework to make up for their shitty teaching ability… and they grade the homework so meticulously that you have to spend an ungodly amount of time making sure nothing escapes her expected answers. Pure regurgitation I may add. Purely paraphrasing and summarizing. No room for creative thought, building associations and creating new paradigms with the information. Nope. I like the professors who dole out homework once and a while, check to make sure you do it, and provide constructive feedback if your own the right track, posing questions as additional guidance.
Anyway…
So when I’m done this cathartic vent, I’ll begin studying for my cog Pysch test tomorrow.
Followed by Calc. I have a Calculus II hand in test due tomorrow. Integration by parts and integration tables. Take home quiz.
Advanced composition, semiotic analysis essay.. six pages.. on Karl Popper’s political philosophy on Open Society.. with dabs of references to his critique of totalitarianism.. using South Park to illustrate our liberal democracy operating within an open society. yadda yadda. I’ll save it for the paper..
Then I have AdvComp reading… followed by two sets of questions..
then Spanish II.
then Stats.. if I get around to it… which I can bet I wont.
All told… there’s a solid 5-6 hours of studying there… can I do it? hellfuckinyes.
William Dare 