Picking 2nd Yr Classes

is quite an ordeal. Two big questions:

1. Do I pick classes that will be on the Bar exam? OR
2. Do I pick classes that I'll enjoy?

Professors will tell you to take classes that you enjoy since you pay all this tuition for them but most students tell you to take a healthy dose of classes that will be on the Bar. Barbri classes teach the substantive matter during their review classes (summer before the Bar) but it gets very rough trying to learn too many new subjects. I'll be taking majority of the Bar classes my 2nd year then those I enjoy, my 3rd year. That's the easy part.

The hard part is getting into those classes before they fill up. Rising 3L's get to pick their classes one week before we do (starting tomorrow at 8pm) and we get to pick starting next Thursday at 8pm. Imagine 230 students, at 7:59pm, with their fingers poised atop their keyboards ready to madly type in call #s trying to get into an Evidence class that has only 6o seats. Vicious! We also have to take an Appellate Advocacy class this fall which I hear is a beast. It's true what they say: 1st year: they scare you to death; 2nd year: they work you to death; 3rd year: they bore you to death.