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Geist13 · Post by **Geist13** » Thu May 19, 2011 11:01 am

After completing one citation (out of 25) in the bluebooking exercise I am ready to kill myself. It took 75 minutes and had 23 errors (that I caught). What the fuck is this shit?

Borhas · Post by **Borhas** » Thu May 19, 2011 11:06 am

clearly, law review editors are sadists, perhaps it's best to not join them

kalvano · Post by **kalvano** » Thu May 19, 2011 1:15 pm

Geist13 wrote:After completing one citation (out of 25) in the bluebooking exercise I am ready to kill myself. It took 75 minutes and had 23 errors (that I caught). What the fuck is this shit?

What in the hell kind of citation?

Geist13 · Post by **Geist13** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:24 pm

kalvano wrote:
Geist13 wrote:After completing one citation (out of 25) in the bluebooking exercise I am ready to kill myself. It took 75 minutes and had 23 errors (that I caught). What the fuck is this shit?
What in the hell kind of citation?

Nothing too fancy. Every little detail was wrong though (it's the same for numbers 2 and 3). Unless of course I have no idea what the hell I'm doing, which is a definite possibility. That or I wound up with a "trick" bluebook.

weee · Post by **weee** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:07 pm

I definitely prefer doing the production test portion of mine, at least I can have a tv program in the background or something while doing it, unlike reading a packet and writing new material.

kaiser · Post by **kaiser** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:13 pm

Packet is in. 1L is officially over. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

mths · Post by **mths** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:51 pm

1000 pages

thanks cornell

kaiser · Post by **kaiser** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:55 pm

mths wrote:1000 pages

thanks cornell

You're kidding me. They gave you 1000 pages of background materials!? How much time do you have for this competition?

mths · Post by **mths** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:56 pm

kaiser wrote:
mths wrote:1000 pages

thanks cornell
You're kidding me. They gave you 1000 pages of background materials!? How much time do you have for this competition?

10 days

this is the second day, I have not touched it

kaiser · Post by **kaiser** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:58 pm

mths wrote:
kaiser wrote:
mths wrote:1000 pages

thanks cornell
You're kidding me. They gave you 1000 pages of background materials!? How much time do you have for this competition?
10 days

Good lord, mine was 250 pages and it took me 2 days to read and piece together all the materials. It would take me the better part of a week to read that much. I can't understand how they expect you to get through it and come out with something coherent. Good luck.

mths · Post by **mths** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:05 pm

kaiser wrote:
mths wrote:
kaiser wrote:
mths wrote:1000 pages

thanks cornell
You're kidding me. They gave you 1000 pages of background materials!? How much time do you have for this competition?
10 days
Good lord, mine was 250 pages and it took me 2 days to read and piece together all the materials. It would take me the better part of a week to read that much. I can't understand how they expect you to get through it and come out with something coherent. Good luck.

you're not expected to read all of it

goodolgil · Post by **goodolgil** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:28 pm

Is a lot of it redacted at least?

TTH · Post by **TTH** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:21 pm

20 hours, 38 minutes to go. Nowhere near done.

Sigh.

weee · Post by **weee** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:55 pm

goodolgil wrote:Is a lot of it redacted at least?

I am so happy when I reach a page that has all but one or two sentences redacted

missinglink · Post by **missinglink** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:06 pm

kaiser wrote:Packet is in. 1L is officially over. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

moandersen · Post by **moandersen** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:21 pm

goal for this week was to read through the 400+ page packet. due to starting my SA job and being sick all week, i might have read 20? journals are overrated.

IthacaIsWet · Post by **IthacaIsWet** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:24 pm

kaiser wrote:
mths wrote:
kaiser wrote:
mths wrote:1000 pages

thanks cornell
You're kidding me. They gave you 1000 pages of background materials!? How much time do you have for this competition?
10 days
Good lord, mine was 250 pages and it took me 2 days to read and piece together all the materials. It would take me the better part of a week to read that much. I can't understand how they expect you to get through it and come out with something coherent. Good luck.

750+ pages for the note
250+ pages of referenced materials for the editing portion.

So burnt out. Maybe I don't really want to be on a journal anyway.

solotee · Post by **solotee** » Thu May 19, 2011 11:25 pm

missinglink wrote:
kaiser wrote:Packet is in. 1L is officially over. What the hell am I supposed to do now?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

+1

This is what I have been doing for the past 9 days, and it was more than I could ask for.

TTH · Post by **TTH** » Fri May 20, 2011 1:02 am

Jesus what misery, and all so I can come up with some absolute shitpaper to turn in tomorrow. I don't know if I'm gonna finish (people have been dropping out left and right here), and even if I do, I rate my chances of getting on main journal low.

Fuck it. At least I graded on to something.

emorystud2010 · Post by **emorystud2010** » Fri May 20, 2011 11:35 am

PirateCap'n · Post by **PirateCap'n** » Fri May 20, 2011 12:20 pm

moandersen wrote:goal for this week was to read through the 400+ page packet. due to starting my SA job and being sick all week, i might have read 20? journals are overrated.

+1. I have absolutely nothing done.

Chichaca · Post by **Chichaca** » Fri May 20, 2011 1:38 pm

Done!! 1L is over. Good luck everyone.

beach_terror · Post by **beach_terror** » Fri May 20, 2011 1:42 pm

Okay, time to start this shit for real.

600+ pages, shoot me now.

Geist13 · Post by **Geist13** » Fri May 20, 2011 1:48 pm

beach_terror wrote:Okay, time to start this shit for real.

600+ pages, shoot me now.

Reading is the fun part. Just wait till you have to start writing. It's horrible. I can't bring myself to sit down.

Borhas · Post by **Borhas** » Fri May 20, 2011 2:23 pm

I decided against going through w/ the Write-On Competition

And now to true Summer

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