[blindlaw] Law School in 3 Years Question

[albert griffith]

I've heard it said that first year law students will read 10,000 pages of 
material.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Wayne" <RWayne1 at nyc.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Law School in 3 Years Question


| 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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