Distractions … but better January 27, 2007
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I managed to go through a whole lot of stuff this week. Finally. Yesterday I bludged a bit but I know, me bad. I found And now the bar blog while looking up some barbri lecturer – I think this is the first NY bar exam blog that I found that I can relate to, hard to explain but it’s not like um.. whingy and realistic.
Meanwhile, I watched all these Frontline docos online, it keeps me chained to the desk, it prevents me from surfing other sites (because the buffering would stuff up on the streaming) … All the ones about criminal justice is very interesting!
It took quite a while to work through all the examples in Estates – I swear, it took more than 3 hours … maybe I’m doing it wrong? but I did the question at the back of the lecture and I am rather pleased that it wasn’t completely go over my head.
It’s almost February, it’s 1 month to the bar exam… time to turn it on. I almost had a brain explode the other day doing a question even though I knew the areas & the elements. After that I thought, I gotta turn off the brain for a bit or I’m going to burn out.
Still a bit behind… January 24, 2007
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My brain is tired and I can’t seem to keep up with all the assignments. Sometimes I stare at ebay listings, out the window, watch TV, cook… mindless things not requiring the mind to think TOO much but things that I can do which achieve something other than stress and confusion (fixing my network/ computer aside).
Today I did the first contracts question where I confidently knew some stuff. Cool. I’m slowly catching up on the questions I misse. I looked at the Bar Exam Survival Kit and Jeff recommends that when you first do the essays, you do it open book. I did that, it was good to have a safety blanket but I was only using it to refer to one or 2 points. So maybe I did learn something.
Meanwhile, since Barbri didn’t bother to give us self-study schedule a lovely Paced Program (yeah considering that we paid so much more for the ipod, you’d think we’d get a personalised paced program for us as well), we had to swap around everything ourselves and the assignments are out of wack. So maybe it’s a blessing I am slightly behind. I emailed them with the timetable as altered literally and the STILL haven’t gotten back to me 
Back to the RP lecture I go.
My study room January 12, 2007
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I didn’t want to link to flickr link it so as to give away my location, but I am studying here. These were the best pics I could find.
A day behind… January 5, 2007
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Hmmm I should not have gone out Thursday night. I am now a day behind I think the subject matter, NY Practice (this is a week of it) is part of it as well. It’s so hard to get enthusiastic about it.
I’m trying not to look at the learning schedule next week, I think it may overwhelm me.
