My first exam is next Tuesday. Man does it become a lot closer when you put it down on paper. It's a mere 3 days away, yet in my head its still just a hazy silouhette on the now not so distant horizon. Then I have a 6 day respite before another one, and finally the last one two days after that.

 

Three exams, piece of cake, some might say. In fact, most people have to deal with four. Of course, most people also went to most of their lectures.

 

I've taught myself the intracacies of accounting over the last three days, so that's one of them out of the way. Operations Management is also progressing along rather nicely, and the learning is scheduled to finish before the exam.

 

That leaves Criminal Law and Procedure.

 

Law is stereotypically seen as a "difficult" subject. Over my three years at Uni, and especially studying Law and Commerce side by side, I have learnt to agree with that stereotype.

 

I am by no means calling Commerce stupid. At its most complex issues in Commerce will easily rival that of any other, and is certainly not beneath Law. However, coming back down to Earth, law examinations do tend to be more strenuous.

 

In Commerce you can earn a respectable mark by having a vague recollection of the three or four key concepts taught in the course. Any demonstrate of an ability to apply those concepts will just be cherry on top.

 

In Law you will fail unless you have a tight grasp of every minute detail of every little thing covered by the course, possibly even down to the dietary preferences of the High Court judges on each day of the month. Then you are grudgingly awarded a passing grade if you can show how they can be applied to a variety of situations that on the surface may appear completely unrelated.

 

Getting a respectable grade requires nothing short of a miracle, or, at least in my case, the sacrifice of far too much of your life to the library.

 

Being fully aware of this, I have resolved to at least turn up to all of my law lectures this semester. And I did, to most of them. It was just unfortunate that they were scheduled for 9 am, and my brain typically only arises from its slumber well after noon.

 

This has resulted in me currently being in a most precarious situation. As dear old George has stated, in life, there are many unknown unknowns. Well, I'm going a meta step beyond that, as I'm not even sure if I have any unknown unknowns in terms of the subject matter for Criminal Law. Unknown unknown unknowns. As ridiculous as it looks, it does make sense if you can bend your head around it.