Registration Madness

Well, after some weeks of unplanned postponement, the spanking new law school course registration website is finally accessible! For the next 48 hours, we get to enter the lottery for "multi-section" courses on the website.

Multi-sectioned courses, as their names suggest, are courses that are offered in more than one sections at the law school. They are generally considered to be the more important classes that "everyone" should take, or at least ones that the law school, while not requiring them, strongly "recommends" you to take.

This year is the beginning of a huge curriculum overhaul. There used to be be only 4 courses that were "recommended" by the law school: acconting, con law, corporations, and tax. (we also used to call these four courses "bundles", because these courses were bundled together and you had to take them all or drop them all... or something. This is all ancient history starting this year so I never really have to learn that system, thank god, because it sure sounded stupid).

But now the law school has dropped good ol' "Accounting" from the mix and added a whole bunch of others. So now the "multi-sections" are:

Tax (already took it! yoo-hoo, I mean boo!)

Con Law (offered in like a gazillion sections, many with big names)

Corporations

Administrative Law (our beloved Dean is teaching a section in the spring, which meets Thursdays and Fridays at 8 AM. Talking about weeding people out...)

Evidence

Federal Courts (I'm a little surprised this was included. It doesn't seem to have the same broad appeal as the other courses. It's mostly for people who want clerkships and the like. I suspect this is the pet project of my crim law prof (remember good ol' Professor M?), who is a vice dean and also teaches a notoriously hard section of federal courts.)

Negotiations Workshops (this also took me by surprise. I think it's a sign that alternative dispute resolution is really becoming mainstream these days.)

Anyway, you can be sure I'll be spending the next 2 days agonizing over this. Decision making is always hard for me.

:D yummy thai food tonight with ABS. Good convos as usual.
:( allergies; work.