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Dude, where’s my grade?

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I approached the law school information desk trying desperately not to be ”twitchy high-strung law student pestering about his grades”…but…

Me: “Hi, (twitches) I was here last week about my Conlaw II grade…and I was wondering (twitch) what the status on that was…”
Infodesk guy: “Hm. I thought those were in last week. Let me call Registrarman.”
Me (still twitching, and sweating): “Thank you.”

Five minutes later, Registrarman comes out.

Registrarman: “The Conlaw grades were in over a week ago. They should be up.”
Me: “But my grade isn’t up.”
Registrarman: “That’s odd. I posted all of the Conlaw I grades last week…”
Me: “Oh, nono, but I am in Conlaw II!”
Registrarman: “OH! That’s a different course!”
Me (twitch): “Yes. It is. Sorry, I don’t want to be a pest, but, (twitch) I have had all of my other grades for a while, and this the ONLY grade I’m waiting on and…so…um like US Americans and such as…”
Registrarman: “Let me go check that one.”

He disappears for 5 more minutes.

Registrarman: “Your professor has until February 1st to turn the Conlaw II grades in. She’s not late yet.”
Me (twitching, sweating, my deoderant breaking down…): “Oh…okay…thank you…”

I then scury off awkwardly, trying not to stumble as Registrarman cackles evilly. Womp.

Moot confusion

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Today was our first and only moot court meeting of the semester. The attorney-instructor whisked through this semester’s requirements, circulated some sign-up sheets, and then asked if we had any questions.

Jill looked around, and then said,

Jill: “I have absolutely no idea what is going on.”

After a collective nervous laugh, the attorney-instructor re-explained how the course works:

  1. Moot court is a February-only class this semester.
  2. We have to revise our appellate brief and do three oral arguments, including an off-brief argument.
  3. The course is over on February 22nd.

Basically, we have an oral argument each week except for the week our brief is due. And we are on a curve, with 9 students with no objective way to evaluate our performance.

Although I had a major “wtf” moment while sitting in the class, the requirements don’t seem so awful now. Revising a moot court brief is not as terrible as writing it, and the oral arguments aren’t burdensome if  I properly schedule the arguments.

The trick to moot court (and anything in law school really) is to do the work instead of procrastinating or bitching about it. We’ll see how I do.

Trivia, lean and mean

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The attendance at Trivia was sparse last night. We still won with our three-person team since Randy happened to know 90% of the answers.

Last night was special because of our new Trivia host: Amy.

Trivia Mafia

This is totally a “Paula was okay but Ellen is so much better” situation.

This is Jake, taking pictures on his phone:

Trivia Mafia

He’s really good about taking pictures… posting them is another matter.

And this is Joel’s standard look. He calls it “pondering” but everyone else calls it “bored and unengaged.”

Trivia Mafia

The real message is: “Bitch, my hat is fly. I cannot be bothered.”
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