I'm back in Boston now, but a few days ago I was in New Jersey to take care of various errands (e.g., getting fingerprinted for the NJ bar). On the drive down I listened to three of the five PMBR CDs on property law. It was very dangerous - even though it was 4:30 in the afternoon, I nearly fell asleep at the wheel…
Since I couldn't be at my regular BarBri lectures in Boston I had to make them up in New York. I did part of one at the BarBri offices and the rest at Fordham. I kind of liked the change of pace, especially getting to study New York material in New York for a change. It gave it all much more relevancy. Plus it was nice to be able to join in the ambient conversations during the breaks fretting about the playing-status of Derek Jeter. The guys I was talking to about it gave me appropriate looks of sympathetic horror when I told them I'd just spent the last three years up in Boston…
One thing that is different about the New York lectures from the Boston one is that there are more of them, and at more times. It therefore seemed to be a fairly frequent occurrence that people who missed the beginning of one lecture would come to the beginning of the next one. I had to do that once, as I missed the beginning of the Thursday morning session and had to catch up with the 6pm one. (I also noticed that there were a lot more people wearing suits at the 6pm one than there ever were at any of the others.)
Meanwhile I came to appreciate the BUSL facility. The classrooms at the BarBri office are functional, but very crowded and otherwise uncharming. (Although the location was great - right at the north end of Times Square on 42nd street - a really easy walk over from the Port Authority and lots of subway lines.) Fordham also paled to BU. While the school had a couple of features BUSL doesn't have - namely, a lobby - the large lecture classrooms weren't nearly as nice. They were pretty sterile, and the seats were these hard plastic buckets that shook when other people sitting in the same row happened to move. Whereas BU's rooms have a much nicer aesthetic and more comfortable furniture. And a better view… (Well, at least from out the window. Fordham did have more TV screens, meaning that all the seats could see the screen, which isn't necessarily the case at BU.)