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Am I Royally Boned?Have you been here before?
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antoinett  
Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 10 |
Am I Royally Boned?Have you been here before?
I scored the TOFEL test 110 and I spent a whole month writing the entery essay and I had it edited by a fiend so it turned out to be a good writing material. I was admitted to a top 20 university for LLM program and....Thu Sep 04, 2008 05:02 AM I have been enrolling in the program for 2 weeks now and I am officially screwed! Well I do understand the most part when I read the case law book but not All and that means sometimes I miss important parts. I do understand the lectures for most part but I have no ability to speak in the class or to express my legal point of view in their language or any language close to them. Simply I find myself far behind any JD student!!!! When it comes to writing it is even worse! I saw an LLM graduate from last year, she was French and hardly spoke any English . Now I am wondering how on earth she could do this.??!!!! Finaly, I have found their teaching system kind of more confusing, I mean they give us like 50 pages to read and we go to the class, they discuss everything and anything except the text itself,I mean at the end of the day I have no idea what the conclusion or main point was? They just talk about the background and different arguments behind the subject but not the subject itself. Geeeez I am scared and helpless; I really don’t know what to do? Does anyone else feel the same? Do you have any suggestion? Do I have to read every single phrase 10 times and memorize it? What the H*** am I suppose to do to improve for the final exams? |
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May I ask what is the point of this forum if most posts are left un answered and if people are too busy with their own concern that do not care to answer even if they do peek in?
Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:57 AM |
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Pty K
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Adjusting to a whole new system of education is difficult, and the transition is hard. That's part of the LLM experience, figuring out how to handle the classes, the environment, the cases. If you're feeling really overwhelmed, talk to the graduate program people or to your student advisors if you can.
Thu Sep 11, 2008 06:35 PM |
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