I'm realizing in talking to other international students that not all of them know what they'll be taking next semester. "Yeah, I didn't get all the classes I wanted; I'll have to figure it out during Add/drop," is a surprisingly common refrain.
Whereas I know exactly what courses I'll be taking*, when they meet, and when I'll be done with them.
I used to think BU was silly for making us sign up for all our courses for the whole year in the summer before. But on retrospect, I'm grateful. We're not completely locked into anything, of course, but it still allows us more certainty than having to scramble around in the fall would. It's the best of both worlds, actually: flexibility and predictability.
* I'm now 98% decided that I will take Criminal Procedure instead of Trial Advocacy. It will certainly be much harder, and it will mean that I'll have FOUR EXAMS(!) at the end of the semester, but I think it will be better in the long run for the breadth of my education.
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You'll be happy to know, since my approval is essential to all of your choices, that I endorse your taking of crim pro. I feel like it's something any lawyer should be at least familiar with, in order to be a more informed citizen.
Plus, I've decided that you're going to run the ACLU someday, so this is something you'll need to know.
In other news, I've decided that I'm going to be Eliot Spitzer's Solicitor General when he's elected President in 2016, but that's another story.
Posted by Mike | November 26, 2005 10:35 PM
Posted on November 26, 2005 22:35