[blindlaw] Law School in 3 Years Question

[Ray Wayne]

Your first instinct is correct.  Do it in three!  Your prospective employer
is not going to want to give you extra time to complete work assignments.
Surely some things take longer, but if you think you are spending
significantly more time than your sighted peers getting school work done,
you may want to work on your blindness skills, that is, Braille, use of
technology, and use of readers, to name a few.  If you need improvement in
these areas you may want to delay law school and get training at one of our
centers.  I am sure there a lot of people on this list who did this, or who
wish they had.  Law school is tough, and you should enter it with all of the
possible tools at your disposal.
Ray Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jen Barrow" <barrowj at comcast.net>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:22 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] Law School in 3 Years Question


Hi List,



I will be starting law school in the Fall.  On a couple of the school
websites, a reduced course load is listed as an example of a possible
reasonable accommodation.  I am curious what you guys did or are doing-
whether you completed law school in the 3 typical years?  I did my undergrad
in 4 years, partly out of principal that I did not want to receive special
treatment and partly because I wanted to graduate with my class.  But, in
retrospect, I think 4.5 or 5 years of study would have improved my quality
of life (e g time away from studying to be more social), and the depth of my
learning.  I realize now that I often powered through reading assignments so
fast to complete them on time that I read them too fast to truly process the
material.  I don't want to cheat myself again out of the full opportunities
of learning, but I'm not sure that 4 years of law school is quite the way to
go either.  I've heard the first year of law school is hell for everybody,
but how did it go for those of you who read all your books with JAWS?  Any
thoughts are appreciated.  Feel free to write me off list.



Thanks,

Jen

barrowj at comcast.net



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