"Son, You're Going to the Show."
Like Dennis Quaid in The Rookie, I've been called up to the majors late in my career here (and like Quaid, I'm no spring chicken). So I'll thank Armen and then, in true Nuts and Boalts fashion, the first thing I want to do is complain.
In contrast to Tom Fletcher's anthem for his third year, mine would have to be "It's Hard Out Here for a 3L." Inexplicably, my Telebears time gets later and later every semester while my friends seem to keep getting earlier time slots. Not only did I not get into the class I wanted most (Hecht's Negotiations), pretty soon I'll be setting my alarm clock for the middle of the night so I don't sleep through that primo 3:10am appointment slot.
If anyone is wondering how this stuff works and why they keep getting the shaft, when I complained to student services about my slot (petty, I know), I was assured that the times are randomly generated by someone at the main campus and that no one at Boalt has it in for me.
Another thing that's been bugging me is the imbalance of classes offered in the fall versus the spring. There is a visibly noticeable difference between the two semesters' class listings on the 'courses at Boalt' page--fall having 100-ish options and spring having closer to 200. I can't be imagining this, right? Obviously some fall offerings will be added along the way, but you get the idea. One theory I've heard is that professors by and large prefer to do their writing in the fall and their teaching in the spring. Empirically, it makes sense, but what about us? We're the ones paying to be here.
I'm just trying to learn here, folks. Which must be why I just spent half an hour writing this instead of studying.
In contrast to Tom Fletcher's anthem for his third year, mine would have to be "It's Hard Out Here for a 3L." Inexplicably, my Telebears time gets later and later every semester while my friends seem to keep getting earlier time slots. Not only did I not get into the class I wanted most (Hecht's Negotiations), pretty soon I'll be setting my alarm clock for the middle of the night so I don't sleep through that primo 3:10am appointment slot.
If anyone is wondering how this stuff works and why they keep getting the shaft, when I complained to student services about my slot (petty, I know), I was assured that the times are randomly generated by someone at the main campus and that no one at Boalt has it in for me.
Another thing that's been bugging me is the imbalance of classes offered in the fall versus the spring. There is a visibly noticeable difference between the two semesters' class listings on the 'courses at Boalt' page--fall having 100-ish options and spring having closer to 200. I can't be imagining this, right? Obviously some fall offerings will be added along the way, but you get the idea. One theory I've heard is that professors by and large prefer to do their writing in the fall and their teaching in the spring. Empirically, it makes sense, but what about us? We're the ones paying to be here.
I'm just trying to learn here, folks. Which must be why I just spent half an hour writing this instead of studying.
Labels: Law School, Technology Rants
posted by Mad.J.D. at 1:54 PM
4 Comments:
Waaaaaay to high-brow for a first post. Go with the standard set by Armen and Jesse.
Fart jokes.
The classes do seem to inordinately suck next fall. Not sure what explains it.
I think part of it is that in the spring the 1Ls can take electives, meaning there are 250+ more people to accomodate in classes.
my appointment time has consistently sucked. I know others who have had awesome time slots every time.
I think student services is lying.
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