Exams...

There's really nothing I want to say right now. I'm in my...9th? hour of studying today and I'm a little drowsy from the big dinner I just made, and I thought I'd just post something to move on from the all-too-repetitive gun post.

I will say though, that I really hate some of my classes this semester. It's like I'm back in college. Instead of learning about law and trying to piece together doctrines with their philosophical underpinnings and trying to construct a coherent framework from the thousands of fragments we get in class, I'm in two classes that are all about history, random facts, and fragments of knowledge that lead nowhere and pretty much stand on their own. It's boring, it's useless, and I hate reading about it. I've come to the conclusion that I actually like the law because it is a lot less dependent on memorization than most disciplines. Of course we have to remember lots of little things in order to integrate them together into a larger whole, but at least once you understand it, you can not worry about the details.

Instead, in my Chinese law class, I have to read through a 7 or 8 inch binder full of law review articles, stupid opinions, historical remnants, and entire bodies of law...and try to figure out what to do with it. (Yes, entire bodies of law. So far we've had to read the Chinese Constitution, and 13 or 14 Chinese Legislative Acts in full. Not commentaries about them. Not explanations of the law. Not cases. But just the statutes. Hundreds of pages.)

Anyway, enough bitching. Best of luck to all you law school students out there as we trudge through yet another hellish few weeks of exams...