The Hell Review Competition
Well, school is over. Finally. Kind of anti-climactic.
I'm so deflated and fatigued from this year of non-stop studying that I really can't write anything insightful about my first year of school. I think I just need some time to "process it all", as the life coaches say.
But I will share a little something about the Law Review Competition. This hellacious week-long event is held every year immediately after final exams and the top 40 or so students are chosen to join the school's prestigious law review.
The competition packet is no less than 1000 pages long and requires each student to write a 20 page paper complete with lengthy footnotes and to edit a doctored 30 page paper replete with errors of all imaginable kinds...and some I hadn't imagined could be in a paper.
I had heard horror stories about students not sleeping during the last two days and dismissed them as mere legal urban-legend. But I'm here to tell you, straight from the horse's mouth. It is ALL true.
I myself did not sleep for the last two days, did not shower, did not even eat (except for a few disgusting nutrition bars) and STILL was not finished when the deadline rolled around.
But I turned it in anyway.
I'm so deflated and fatigued from this year of non-stop studying that I really can't write anything insightful about my first year of school. I think I just need some time to "process it all", as the life coaches say.
But I will share a little something about the Law Review Competition. This hellacious week-long event is held every year immediately after final exams and the top 40 or so students are chosen to join the school's prestigious law review.
Man against Paper: The greasy and dehydrated author battles the review.
The competition packet is no less than 1000 pages long and requires each student to write a 20 page paper complete with lengthy footnotes and to edit a doctored 30 page paper replete with errors of all imaginable kinds...and some I hadn't imagined could be in a paper.
I had heard horror stories about students not sleeping during the last two days and dismissed them as mere legal urban-legend. But I'm here to tell you, straight from the horse's mouth. It is ALL true.
I myself did not sleep for the last two days, did not shower, did not even eat (except for a few disgusting nutrition bars) and STILL was not finished when the deadline rolled around.
But I turned it in anyway.
posted by Alice in Wonderland at 9:07 PM
7 Comments:
That's evil. That's so evil. I hope you're getting a head start on the mai tais and the rubdown by natives.
Oh! but I bet you lost weight! There's always a silver lining ;)
Hardly. I had a dinky Memorial weekend to relax before work started bright and early on Tuesday.
And unfortunately I lost the wrong kind of weight...muscle-weight. I started out decently firm and ended up looking totally flabby.
Geez and i thought Med students had it rough. 20 pages are a lot, no errorr-is that even possible. Glad you survived
I forgot to ask: what are you doing this summer? How's it going?
Results are in around the end of July. I don't want to sound too hedgy, but it wouldn't be a bad thing to not make the cut. Editors have to devote at least 20 hours a week to the journal!
good luck!
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