Working on my summer/fall schedules. Every time I think I have it planned, a new wrinkle pops up. Just found out that I have to take tax (despite my every intention to avoid it completely!) because it is a prerequisite for 22 (yes, 22) classes at school (i.e., Business Planning, Estate Planning), some of which are important for my career. Oh yeah, and it’s also a bar course. Bleech. It is only offered in the fall and then not again until the year I graduate. So, damn it, I am stuck!

Next question is whether I should take a seminar (50-page paper, no exam) this fall with a great teacher or a regular course in an area of law that is interesting but not applicable to my career path?

Finally, if you had a choice between a six-week summer course that was wicked hard but necessary and a six-week course that was much easier but had fewer people so the curve is sharper, which would you take? Is it better to take the harder, necessary course over a full semester while balancing two other courses or to concentrate on that one course for six weeks and get it over with? The hard professor is the only one who teaches it and it’s offered regularly both in summer and in the fall/spring so I have a choice. The “easy” course has a lot of role playing and oral argument and might actually be hard for me with the way my doped-up brain is right now. Bleech. What to do, what to do?!?!?