registration for classes

the registration frenzy is over.

i don't quite know what classes i'm going to take, but at least the ball is in my court this semester. i'm registered for everything that i can potentially take; i just have to decide what to drop. i'm signed up for eighteen credits, and i only have to take thirteen. here's what i'm signed up for right now, with my musings about each:

( cutting the minutiae, in my infinite wisdom. )

the other thing that confuses matters is national moot court. tryouts start this weekend with the oral argument, and then there's an application and interview process. if i get onto the team, i'm definitely dropping environmental moot court. if i make that and decide that there are twelve other credits that i want to take during the semester, i'll also drop intersession.

so, that's my registration situation as it stands now. the good news is that i don't have to worry about any of the wait lists. the bad news is that i still have a long way to go to figure out how i'm going to narrow it down. what makes it so painful is that i'm not torn between a bunch of classes that i'm passionate about. i'm torn between a bunch of classes that i'm almost equally lukewarm about.


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¹ barbri is the bar review class. i finally got around to signing up for it yesterday. it bothers me that after paying six figures for law school, you are basically forced to take a $3000 class to teach you how to pass the test that allows you to pass the bar and get your law license. it's such a swindle. sigh...i think wisconsin has it right with its diploma privilege.

legal cheerleading

above the law linked off to a post on the the wall street journal law blog. the post itself was pretty dull, but it referenced a lawyer who cheers for the jacksonville jaguars, and an absolutely terrible law-themed cheer that an ESPN columnist wrote.¹:

Collateral, collateral
Estoppel!
When we testify,
We give 'em [heck]!

what really makes the post, though, is the big firm themed cheer that a writer for the wsj law blog wrote in rebuttal:

With interrogatories and document requests
We’re gonna make your lives a mess
And if you’re still around in a month or two
Yeah, uh-huh, we’ll coun-ter-sue!

corporate defense in a nutshell.

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¹ seriously, gregg easterbrook. your brother is the chief judge of the seventh circuit court of appeals. you can do better than that. that cheer is absolutely terrible. it doesn't make any sense, and you put the wrong emphasis on the word "estoppel"! you should have called your brother for advice before writing that.