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Con Law Exam: Better Later than Never May 22, 2010

I’ve been in a mix of a coma/the writing competition for the last week.  I think (based on my estimate) I’m not going to be done with the Comment until Tuesday, so my 1L year goes until then (essentially).  After that it’s vacation.

However, I thought it best to regale my dear readers of my tale of my first take home exam, the Con Law exam.

I had 8 hours to do it, and could basically start anywhere between 6am and 9am.  I choose 8am.

After downloading the exam, I glanced at the very short fact pattern, and walked down the street to get coffee and a sandwich.  Now maybe it was the gloomy weathers, or maybe it was the several weeks of only sleeping 4 or 5 hours, but I was tired when I sat down to dissect the exam.  It was a struggle to keep my eyes open, and I think I spent half my time outlining a very specific plan of attack (I have no idea how it took this long).  After awhile I realized the exam was more difficult than expected.

Then came the nightmare of writing, I started to feel the time crunch when I realized it wasn’t prudent to spend an hour on each of the five questions when I had three hours left.  I finish writing with a half hour to spare, so I hastily start editing hoping to reach the word count.  Ultimately I feel unsatisfied with the final product (a mix between satisfaction with how I wrote my crim exam, and fear for the massacre that was the admin exam).

To celebrate my finishing of finals (I was not particularly happy) I packed up some of my things since I’d be moving out in the morning.  Then I proceeded to go up to what I like to call ‘Mini-Soho’ (it probably has a real name), a strip of stores on 5th avenue between 17th and 20th streets (just north of beautiful Benjamin Cardozo School of Law).  I bought some clothes, and then proceeded to get (as they say) ‘bodied’ at the end of semester activities.

A fuller reflection of 1L year will follow in the coming week.