This past registration period, I was indecisive as all hell. I was trying to be a good law student and in the process, I over-analyzed the facts. In fairness to law students, I tend to over-analyze in general, but this time was worse than usual. I compared everything between two seminar classes and actually went and made the physical change twice on my schedule. I’ve never gone back and made a change with the registrar before this semester once I have made up my mind.
I found myself between a traditional, business-oriented class that used a practice guide as the main coursebook and taught by a well-known lawyer in the community and a hybrid course from an up-and-coming professor with knock-your-socks-off credentials. The former was my number two choice last semester and it was the second time I tried to get into the class. It is sort of the practical application version of Corporations. The latter was an afterthought meant to encompass all the classes I had missed in law school thus far, the rights of the consumer but including advanced torts and contracts and admin law.
By ultimately going for the traditional course, I am bolstering my business bona fides in an attempt to be as doubly a lawyer-businessman as possible without having an MBA. It is a course that purports to train you to set-up shop and produce business documents. Based on my limited experience, the latter would have done about the same, from a different approach, it would have taught you to think like a civil practice lawyer, exploring your strategies on both the torts and the contracts side of things. Both had papers, the hybrid could have been more theoretical while the business one was a collection of paper documents and a business strategy.
I went with the proven approach. This is the first year of the hybrid and the business one has been around for years. Why agonize? Why subject my girlfriend to arguments of the minute over the phone just as she gets off works? Why are the undergrads stupid and could not figure out to go to the back of the bookstore to purchase their books instead of waiting in long lines at the front (as I did upon buying back the book I had sold last week for the business class)? Who knows. They must have just been following suit as I was in choosing this traditional course. Anyway, it’s crap to worry about small stuff like this, I hate having an over-uber-analytical mind. No one will care twenty days from now.
-jd
