Oh I am tired today.  So tired that I am going go home as soon as I type this up.  This week I focused on writing essays and I am glad I started on them.  I was very afraid of doing them and I felt I didn’t know enough law.  I am so glad I started doing essays and I realize that yes, I don’t know the rule of law precisely enough and I need to memorize a whole lot of it so I can just dump it on the paper really quick.  I am for the most part doing well at issue spotting.

When I look at what I type up every week I feel like I am doing almost nothing for bar preparation.  But, then I have to remind myself that I am not putting everything that I do here like the classes that are either 4 hours or 6 hours long.  Last weekend we have classes Saturday and Sunday for 6 hrs and that swallowed up a lot of time.  I am also doing state subject quizes, and of course reviewing.  But, still I am not doing as much as I can and I should. 

Studying in general I think right now I am at a 75% studying capacity.   At the beginning of week 4 I finally got to a rhythm that works for me.  I no longer take notes in outline form rather in note card form on power point slides because I don’t have time to make note cards and it makes it easier for me to go through the material.  I am also building answer blurbs or model answers that I can start memorizing or become so familiar with it that I will be able to easily recall most of it.  I am not a memorizing machine and if I start memorizing too much then I will forget it by the end of July, but I do need to start memorizing some neumonics now so that I won’t be overwhelmed with the amount of information to memorize in July.      

I need to get way more serious about this bar.  Like waaaayy more!

Goals for Week 5

- Two MPT’s

-One full State #1 Bar Exam

-One full MBE Exam

 -10 Essays

- At least 25 MBE’s in each subject  (100 in torts and close to 50 in contracts)

So, onto what I did this week! 

Essays

Contracts – wrote out one essay and outlined another

Sales – wrote out two essays

Real Property – Wrote out two essays

MPT

Wrote out one test

MBE

Really focused on property this week and on week 5 my focus will be on property and then the week after I need to kick crim law into high gear.

Week 4 MBE