Things Are Going Well

So far, the workload is manageable. I do spend a fair amount of time each night reading, but the cases are interesting so time passes by very quickly.

Class discussion, thoug, has been disappointing so far. Many comments made by my classmates are non-sequiturs or only tangentially related to what has been discussed before. A typical scenario is this:

Professor: So, is X really an element of Y, or should some other standards be used?

Student: Well, this has nothing to do with whether X is an element of Y, but I just noticed that A is kind of similar to B.

Professor: Well... um... this is an interesting point...

He then either gets really side-tracked and spends 20 minutes talking about A and B, OR he makes a heroic effort to relate the problem of A and B back to X and Y.

This drives me crazy, and it happens half a dozen times during each class.

Hopefully, this is just people getting warmed up. But having a class discussion with 70+ people is like herding cats sometimes. It's nearly impossible to follow a theme through or to talk about anything in an in-depth, focused way.

But other than that, I'm having a much better time than I thougth I would.