If I could have just one complaint on Christmas...

...it wouldn't be about my family, my presents, the weather, the jet lag, the food, the friends, or the parties.  It would be about my school. 

Starting this (upcoming) semester, the law school has decided to get with the technological program and post first week assignments online.  Previously, we were expected to trudge into the law school, up to the moot court room and find our assignments on a handful of little index cards scattered throughout hundreds of other assignments on other index cards posted to a bulletin board.  It really wasn't difficult, it was just a bother.  Now that the law school sheen has worn off - it's clear that real law students avoid the law school at all times not inherently necessary to the actual study of law.  So the techno-bump is much appreciated by this newly initiated first-year-second-semester-law student.

Now, for the complaint...the book store on campus is kind enough (read: enterprising enough) to offer us law students all the books and materials we may need.  They are organized by professor, by required and recommended, color coded, etc.  It's perfectly nice.  The problem comes with when they decide to put the books on sale in relation to when the semester starts.  Semester starts Jan 3.  Bookstore sells books Jan 2.  Jan 3.  Jan 2.  3.  2. 

I have to get my books the day before class starts and do all my reading for the first day of class the night before.  I can hear the profs now, too - 'these assignments have been posted for weeks, why aren't you prepared?'  I'd probably say something like, 'ummm cause the books were sold out and I only just knew what they were yesterday since you didn't post the text info only page numbers and then you didn't answer my email inquiries about...oh never mind.'  Lucky for me, I'm an old pro at cramming all my reading into the night before - but having learned a little something about my terrible study habits during the last exam cycle, I'd hoped not to do that anymore.  Looks like I'm in for another great semester.

Merry Christmas.

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[whipsaw]

If you can obtain the assigned text names, there are some decent online law book websites that can express mail them to you. Not as easy as schlepping to the law school bookstore, but if you want them sooner (assuming your profs get the info out in a timely manner)...