the concept of exams is a farce.
Most of my poetry (the stuff I try to pass off as poetry) is about guys. Something has to be done about that. I'm not so shallow and superficial as to find nothing else to wax poetic, sometimes lyrical, about than...guys. At least, that's my best-case scenario.
The studying thing is pretty much futile. Incredibly, I'm not worried at all.
For some weird reason I'm so zen about everything that I'm not even bothered by the fact that I've more or less given up on C.ompany L.aw. More glaringly, I've only properly started studying yesterday (November 23, 2006), and even then I was half writing out my P.roperty open-book notes and half surfing the net, not fully concentrating at all. I suck at this studying thing - and yet, whether it's a serious case of uncontrolled and uncontrollable hubris or if I'm actually justified in believing so, I just have this zen feeling that everything's gonna go my way in the end. Incredible, ain't it? I think so too.
Well, the aim is basically ABC: A for C.LT, B for P.rop and C for C.ompany (haha brilliant pun). It's amazing that I even have a real aim, beyond the default "just pass can already lah", especially if you take into account the many different ways of alleviating the guilt of not studying that I've pretty much perfected over this exam period (one day, I will write an entry about this). But, then again, the thing about me is that I've always worked better under pressure, and that last-minute studying pretty much means I remember whatever I need to remember for the exams, and then proceed to forget everything after the exams. That's more or less the drill for l.aw school, too, so who gives a fuck, right?
I'm only doing my revision for Saturday's C.LT paper later on today, when I wake up and everything. That's a day before the exam. I've heard stories of people who are doing summaries of the topics and forming groups to do summaries of the topics and people who are desperately remembering all the tiny details of the different topics and I'm like, Why the fuck are you even bothering? The exam is a take-home, which means you do it AT HOME, and it's a three-hour paper with a 1200 word limit. Basically, there's pretty much jack you can write. In the light of this useful bit of info, it really makes no sense to study so hard for it and know all the small tiny details. Even if you wanted to show off your extensive knowledge of Islamic L.aw and the four sources of law and how it grew and evolved, you'd be shooting yourself painfully in the foot if you choose to do so 'cause the entire discourse would probably take up half the word count. What's the freaking point? So I'm all, Who the hell cares? I'll just write whatever I want. The question's probably going to be really broad, which will definitely work for me, 'cause I already have a vague idea of what I'm going to say. Problem is, it's not related to law, per se; it's more related to traditions in general, not even a l.egal tradition. Oh well, I'm sure that'll sort itself out in due time.
I didn't even do my readings for the c.ommon law part but I really don't care no more at this juncture. There's a WORD LIMIT, for the love of my sanity. And it's 1200. That's really freaking short. So yeah, it matters not whether or not I know my details; all that matters is my ability to bullshit. And I believe strongly in my ability to bullshit.
Someone shared with me his secret to l.aw school success: write in a way that gives the impression that you already know your fundamentals, then go on to critique the l.aw, even if you only have a superficial understanding of the topic at best. Of course, this method came with a caveat and everything, but I think it's quite a good way to evade extensive studying, and it's good for lazy people like me (and him). If only I knew him last year; I would've utilised this method for L.egal Theory and maybe I wouldn't have got a measley B+.
Anyway. It's 3.21 a.m. I wanted to flip through my C.LT notes but I ended up writing this instead. What a useless entry. Entries about school are more or less useless anyway.
The studying thing is pretty much futile. Incredibly, I'm not worried at all.
For some weird reason I'm so zen about everything that I'm not even bothered by the fact that I've more or less given up on C.ompany L.aw. More glaringly, I've only properly started studying yesterday (November 23, 2006), and even then I was half writing out my P.roperty open-book notes and half surfing the net, not fully concentrating at all. I suck at this studying thing - and yet, whether it's a serious case of uncontrolled and uncontrollable hubris or if I'm actually justified in believing so, I just have this zen feeling that everything's gonna go my way in the end. Incredible, ain't it? I think so too.
Well, the aim is basically ABC: A for C.LT, B for P.rop and C for C.ompany (haha brilliant pun). It's amazing that I even have a real aim, beyond the default "just pass can already lah", especially if you take into account the many different ways of alleviating the guilt of not studying that I've pretty much perfected over this exam period (one day, I will write an entry about this). But, then again, the thing about me is that I've always worked better under pressure, and that last-minute studying pretty much means I remember whatever I need to remember for the exams, and then proceed to forget everything after the exams. That's more or less the drill for l.aw school, too, so who gives a fuck, right?
I'm only doing my revision for Saturday's C.LT paper later on today, when I wake up and everything. That's a day before the exam. I've heard stories of people who are doing summaries of the topics and forming groups to do summaries of the topics and people who are desperately remembering all the tiny details of the different topics and I'm like, Why the fuck are you even bothering? The exam is a take-home, which means you do it AT HOME, and it's a three-hour paper with a 1200 word limit. Basically, there's pretty much jack you can write. In the light of this useful bit of info, it really makes no sense to study so hard for it and know all the small tiny details. Even if you wanted to show off your extensive knowledge of Islamic L.aw and the four sources of law and how it grew and evolved, you'd be shooting yourself painfully in the foot if you choose to do so 'cause the entire discourse would probably take up half the word count. What's the freaking point? So I'm all, Who the hell cares? I'll just write whatever I want. The question's probably going to be really broad, which will definitely work for me, 'cause I already have a vague idea of what I'm going to say. Problem is, it's not related to law, per se; it's more related to traditions in general, not even a l.egal tradition. Oh well, I'm sure that'll sort itself out in due time.
I didn't even do my readings for the c.ommon law part but I really don't care no more at this juncture. There's a WORD LIMIT, for the love of my sanity. And it's 1200. That's really freaking short. So yeah, it matters not whether or not I know my details; all that matters is my ability to bullshit. And I believe strongly in my ability to bullshit.
Someone shared with me his secret to l.aw school success: write in a way that gives the impression that you already know your fundamentals, then go on to critique the l.aw, even if you only have a superficial understanding of the topic at best. Of course, this method came with a caveat and everything, but I think it's quite a good way to evade extensive studying, and it's good for lazy people like me (and him). If only I knew him last year; I would've utilised this method for L.egal Theory and maybe I wouldn't have got a measley B+.
Anyway. It's 3.21 a.m. I wanted to flip through my C.LT notes but I ended up writing this instead. What a useless entry. Entries about school are more or less useless anyway.