law school: February 2006 Archives

I've been really really surprised this semester by which classes I find interesting and enjoyable and which seem tedious. I really dig my Secured Transactions class, which I honestly thought I would hate. I like all three of my enviro classes. Much to my surprise, its the class I took for "fun", that I really thought I would dig, that I just can't get into.

I signed up to take International Human Rights thinking I would LOVE the class. I thought we'd be talking about genocide and FGM and all sorts of disgustingly horrible but also very interesting and compelling stuff. We've had five classes so far, and we haven't even gotten close to that. Yesterday we spent the entire hour and a half talking about whether the U.S. ratifiying international treaties and following international law would lead to a lack of respect from the world community as a whole. This whole discussion was based on two journal articles we were supposed to read for class. I just kept sitting there thinking ... this stuff was really published in an academic journal???

It was all very touchy feely to me. Maybe my background in " hard sciences" has given me very little tolerance for "soft science" type journal articles. I don't know, all I know is I found it incredibly dull. I said this to my best friend, who is also in the class and headed to a PhD program after law school, and she nearly pushed me off the curb into oncoming traffic. She loooooves this stuff and doesn't understand how anyone couldn't enjoy it.

I really wish I liked the class more. The professor is an amazing and inspiring woman. She's funny and engaging and beyond intelligent. I'm just having a very hard time getting into it.