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Dec 08, 2008 14:18

2 classes down, 2 to go. Something is deeply wrong with me because I've never thought Admin Law was that hard. I think that's like reading Ulysses and summarizing it as being about some banal stuff some Irish people did one day. I did use all available time on the exam, though. She warned us ( Read more... )

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slackferno December 8 2008, 22:30:46 UTC

Are you running Leopard?

wealhtheow December 9 2008, 02:01:32 UTC

So, there's this story, which starts with my CD/DVD drive ceasing to work ooh, back around January, a couple weeks after Apple Care expired (natch), and ends with me forgetting about this a week ago - on the last day to download and register ExamSoft - when I bought Leopard so that I could run Boot Camp, realized I couldn't use the install disc, panicked, and got my roommate to let me use her laptop and download and register ExamSoft an hour before the deadline.

SMRT I R.

slackferno December 9 2008, 02:18:52 UTC

Let me know next time you got Mac pain. I can usually work something out.

kushderuh December 9 2008, 00:16:12 UTC

I used to hate the 8am finals I had to take... but then I had a 6pm one and hated that more. I think it's cuz I could take the 8am final, be done by 11 and on the road by 11:30.

/old man

wealhtheow December 9 2008, 02:02:50 UTC

Yeah, getting out at 11:30 was awesome, it would've just been nice to, say, get a full night's sleep, since normally my bedtime is around 2, and it was more like 3 Saturday night 'cuz I saw 300 as a midnight movie.

fanlain December 9 2008, 01:12:26 UTC

I was wondering about whether I should upgrade to a (shiver) PC laptop if I end up starting law school or stick with the Mac. My laptop now is circa 2005 so it's going to be getting close to the time of upgrade anyway. hukuma's is newer so my other thought was that I could take his and he could get a newer one. He pointed out that buying Boot Camp is going to be cheaper than buying a Windows laptop...is there any other reason not to stick with a Mac for law school if that's what one prefers?

wealhtheow December 9 2008, 02:02:01 UTC

No, if you get Boot Camp, there's no other reason not to stick with a Mac. There are tons of Macs in my law school and I'm sure wherever you end up going that will still be the case!

rubrick December 9 2008, 08:16:40 UTC

Note (to both of you, I suppose) that with Parallels or Fusion, you don't even have to dual-boot (as with BootCamp); you can run the vast majority of Windows software and Mac software side-by-side. (You will want a goodly chunk of RAM.)

mindspillage December 9 2008, 16:15:57 UTC

Fuck ExamSoft. I haven't had a computer with a proprietary OS since 2004 and I'm not going to buy one so I can take laptop exams.

(I am pretty sure that the honor code I have already signed already binds me to not cheating, and it is probably not very professionally responsible to allow a piece of software that takes over your computer and does unknown things over the network onto a computer containing files of privileged communications. Strangely this fails to be compelling to anyone with decision-making authority.)

At my school we have the option of handwriting in bluebooks, so I do. Yes, my handwriting blows.

The bar exam in VA offers a laptop option with the Exam4 software; same shit, different vendor, $125 software license fee on top.

wealhtheow December 9 2008, 20:34:47 UTC

Wow, go you. I have managed to avoid taking ExamSoft classes until this quarter, except for Crim as a 1L - I hand-wrote the exam. Both of my exams this quarter require ExamSoft and I can't stomach hand-writing them both - ow - so I give you mad props. Hopefully this is the only time I need to bend over for ExamSoft.

Still blocking on the bar exam. Not thinking about it. La la la.