Picking My Knows

What week is this? 10th week? Seriously? Already? Shit. At UCLA this means that finals would be next week. Haha luckily, I'm not at UCLA. But what it does mean is that it's time to choose classes for next semester.

As you may remember from my earlier post, every 1L has to take the same set of courses no matter what school they're at. Currently, I'm taking Contracts, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, and the first part of my lawyering skills class, which leaves Torts, Property, and the second part of my lawyering skills class for next semester. In addition to this already imposing schedule, Boalt requires us to choose two additional electives- no more, no less.

In order to take a bit of the stress out of process of competing for classes, the registrar set up this system where we submit our top 5 classes in order of preference, and some evil robot or oligarchical panel of hamsters choose two of them for us. Ideally, we're supposed to get our top 2 choices, but it's not guaranteed. You know how hamsters are.

Thus began the two-week-long stressfest that is elective-picking. The ordering element adds an extra level of complexity, since we not only have to choose five classes, but also our preference for them. To make things worse, Shawn (my ASP tutor) told us that while the robot that picks our classes is evil, it apparently isn't very smart because it might actually give you classes with conflicting class times.

Today is the deadline for bidding on classes, so after some thought and a great deal of procrastinating, I decided on my top 5 electives:

1. Civil Procedure II
2. Legislation
3. Constitutional Law: Liberty & Equality
4. Introduction to Intellectual Property
5. Constitutional Law: Basic

Seriously, this thing is a freaking work of art. I have some interest in all the classes, it's ordered so that it's unlikely that the registrar will give me both CivPro II and Con Law (both are huge 4-unit classes), and it's set so that the classes fit together well in my schedule among the mandatory classes. I definitely would've put Intro to IP higher up on the list if it weren't for the fact that there are no reviews about the professor.

CivPro II is supposed to be really hard to get into (only 10 IL's allowed), so $5 says I'm going to end up with Legislation and ConLaw L&E.