The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

I just dropped a course! I don't remember when I last dropped a course. Have I ever dropped a course?

I dropped Law of the WTO. I really wanted to take it because of its implications on international intellectual property law through WIPO and TRIPS, etc. But it isn't clear that what I'd learn would directly bear on those issues, and the scheduling of that particular class precludes a whole bunch of things I might like to do later this term. So I dropped it.

I may still attend, when possible, to glean whatever I can. But it's sort of a relief to not have to stress about showing up all the time.

However, lest you think I've gone all soft, I did add a class today: I got into an alternative dispute resolution course. (It was impacted, and a space only just opened up.) It will be half foreign students and half Germans, and I've never taken an ADR course before. But that won't start until late November, so there's nothing to say about it now.

I also signed up for an arbitration-advocacy moot court class, and later on I'll be taking a comparative constitutional law class. So I don't anticipate being bored any time soon...

Edit: Well, that didn't take long. I suddenly find myself in an Internation Commercial Transaction course. A course I am taking for the Stupidest Reason Ever. Not that I will say what that reason is, but you can pretty much imagine a stupid reason and it may very well be the one. I'm not currently obligated to take it, so I could still change my mind, but so far I find it vastly more interesting than I thought it would be. It's also interesting because it's in English, but half the class is German students. It really is an international International Commercial Transaction course, which I think may alone make it worth taking.