[blindlaw] Law School in 3 Years Question

[Nightingale, Noel]

Ray:

You reminded me to add to my response to Jen that my single biggest
regret about my law school experience was that I attended a blindness
skills training center after law school, not before.  I really could
have used the skills and confidence I gained at the Louisiana Center for
the blind during law school.  Instead I suffered through my very large
print notes, stinky markers, and many printer cartridges for three
years.

Noel

 

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Ray Wayne
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:00 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
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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