Write on note - ran out of time Forum

[CMR]

As a transfer applicant, I'm participating in several concurrent write on competitions. The experience has been a lesson in time management, as I recently discovered when I shuffled the due dates of a couple schools, one of which was one of my priorities. I spent the final day madly scrambling to write the second half of what I thought was a fairly well thought-out note, and while 85% of it was solid material, the conclusion was abrupt and, quite frankly, embarassing. I sent it in anyways, as I had already bluebooked over 100 footnotes, but I literally turn red in the face thinking about the final page. Should I probably have just held onto it? I'm mortified at the prospect that the board of editors will see the identities of the writers after they vote.

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[dominkay]

What you should have done is irrelevant. You already did it, and you can't change it, so stop dwelling on it.

[LoriBelle]

Under the time pressure of a write-on competition, nobody's really happy with what they submitted. After I found out I made law review, I went back and read my submission and was mortified...but I made it. Dominkay is right: what's past is past and you can't change it now. Good luck in your transfer and making the journal you want wherever you end up!