Thursday, May 01, 2003

Well, I survived one exam, and only three more to go. I am finding myself increasingly surrounded by either the paranoid or the apathetic. Half of my classmates I swear are stressing out to the point that I think their heads are going to explode. The other half are so apathetic about studying that they just talk about the stressed out people, and how they don't know anything. **sigh** This is why I just hide in my room during exams. Law students are scary, especially 1Ls. Not that I am not neurotic liket he rest, I just don't seem to fit in either catagory. Maybe it is because I went to a tough college, or that I was a genetics major, and law school is no more scary then staring down back to back genetics and organic chemistry finals. Or maybe it is because I really don't care if I get an A, because, honestly, it is a letter on a piece of paper, and it is awful silly to freak out over a letter. I probably should freak out, but my brain can only take so much.

BTW, if you want to play a fun little game, my prof. made us predict what Rehnquist, Scalia, O'Connor and a Justice of our choosing would do in a situation where the president tries to enforce an action with the justification of implicit powers. It is amazing what you can learn about Justices when you are required to do so. So, as a little game, I suggest everyone play the Supreme Court Justice Game (Click me!) and see which Justice most agrees with your views. Since I started law school with no knowledge of the politics of this country, I have found this little exercise to be rather interesting, and I surprisingly learned a lot. Hopefully you'll think it's interesting. Or you just think I'm nuts. I can deal with that.