It's the third day of classes now, and I still like them all. I'm really excited about everything I'll get to learn, and the schedule seems manageable. In fact, it's now about 1:45pm on Thursday, and once I finish with a 2pm appointment my weekend essentially begins (not that a lot of lounging around will occur - I still have a lot to do - but nothing too immediate will need to be addressed). The only downside I've noticed so far is that between the end of classes MW at 6pm and the beginning of them on TTh at 9am there's not a lot of time/energy available to do the readings. So I may need to find another time to do my homework.
One of the other odd features of my schedule is that 3 of the 5 classes are being taught by non-BU professors. The Trial Advocacy class is taught by two practicing attorneys. My Copyright class is taught by a professor from Northeastern and the Law and Ethics class professor is from Suffolk. But I like them all, so other than a few additional logistical difficulties in visiting office hours, it's all good.
Meanwhile, thanks to the untimely and tragic but presumably not permanent demise of my laptop, I'm remembering what it was like to take all my notes by hand. At the moment I kind of enjoy it. Dare I say I seem to be paying more attention in class? But I am a little concerned with the situation I'll face at the end of the semester. It may be much more difficult to review everything from the course encapsulated into pages and pages of scribble. (I seem to be taking about three pages of notes per class session.) And it will also be more inconvenient to share my notes with my peers, as I usually do. On the other hand, my typed notes tend to be little more than digital scribble anyway, so maybe nothing really will be lost if I continue this. It might be worth continuing as an experiment, just to see if I can sustain it. Live on the edge, I always say...