exams.

yet another round of a seemingly endless cycle of sit, read, write furiously, creep home and weep.

incidentally, i have noticed that my class seems to be very aggressive and very insistent on knowing HOW and WHY and WHAT FOR. we aren’t satisfied with answers that go along the lines of ‘oh, you just have to learn it, that’s all. don’t think about it. don’t ask why, just do’. we ask all our tutors lots of questions, so much so that my business law tutor is afraid of us and the questions we constantly throw at her. her stock reply seems to be ‘i don’t think so, but i’ll have to check and get back to you’ aka lawyerspeak for ‘i really don’t know and i’ll have to go back and do some research about it at your expense’.

anyways, back to the topic du jour.

granted, i’ve only done about 3 days of revising so far, i’m pretty much enjoying the process. it’s very satisfying, putting all the pieces together and being able to look at the topic as a whole as well as being part of a bigger picture. also, it’s just very glee-inducing to look at a past exam paper and say ‘ooh! i know the answer! it’s section whatever-it-is that says whatever-it-says!’.

i’m really just very geeky and very nerdy at heart. i mean, hello i spent an hour chatting about CSS and HTML and which code-checker is the best yet. and i like doing maths and calculating tax liability. if i weren’t so self/image-conscious, i’d so totally have pocket protectors and pens in multicolour sets of 5.

so, yes. i like revising. it’s probably a good thing that most of what i’ve been learning isn’t very intellectual and is really just about knowing things and understanding how they fit in with the rest of the stuff that we’ve been taught and what procedural steps need to be taken. there’s no brain-aching over whether or not some theorist really meant what he said in the translation of his work from extremely technical and verbose german, or whether the aims and purposes of a particular legal doctrine is actually capable of success and how else would it be achieved etc. it’s all very simple, the hard part is remembering all of it in detail.

but, enough chatting. nose to grindstone, and all that jazz.