exam time....

Surprisingly enough, this has been the most relaxing exam period of my entire law school career and that's mostly because I paid my dues to the world of law school stress all semester long as I was writing the 5 papers I had to write (this has, by far, been the worst semester yet even with this easy exam period). Because of all the paper classes, I only have one final in Constitutional Law (abortion, affirmative action, freedom of speech, right to bear arms, etc) and I have really enjoyed studying for it so far. My days mostly go like this: 9:00 (when most of you are already hard at work) I wake up. Then I make a breakfast and watch / listen / read the news. Then, around 10:00 I check my emails, read some more news, and get started on my studying. I do that at home or at the library all day with breaks to juggle my new soccer ball or go for runs. In the evenings I take a long break and study again after dinner until about 1 or 2 and go to bed. I think the fact that I have so much time to study is actually making this enjoyable...

But today merits a blog post because I reached a very important point in my studying... my outline is complete! Most law school exams are open book so having a really good outline that is perfectly organized and easy to use in the exam is crucial. In order to give you a sense of the extent to which this organization can be taken by nerdy law students I'm posting a photo of a "random" outline:

notice the table of contents and tabs for easy access to important information on constitutional law.... what you don't see is that each section is divided into cases on the left page (with all important aspects underlined) and law on the right page....

In hopes that all of you won't think I'm a complete nerd, I should mention that last Saturday I played a great soccer game. We tied 2-2... Revenge will have to wait until the playoffs... I also watched Kandahar, a movie about Afghanistan that I highly recommend, and I went out to dinner with Sohail. I just didn't have a camera for any of those events. And let's be honest, those things aren't nearly as exciting as a complete outline!

My exam's on Thursday and my last paper is due Monday and after that I hope not to take photos of anything on my desk for months to come.