Flashbacks to University-land

STUFF THAT WASN’T QUITE SO AWESOME:

1. The constant fear of having your internet monitored. I missed the internet hate machine.
2. Exams being twice a year, and needing to learn way more than we ever did in high school… I want to die.
3. Before, I never thought I could hate potatoes more.
4. I can’t major in Latin here. ;_;
5. Loud people outside my door when I’m trying to sleep. I love the people on my floor and all, but I kinda wanted to stab them in the face when they were doing that.
6. How no one was allowed to use the elevators in Clyde Wing. After they were unlocked at the end of the year and I played games in them, I found out they were originally locked to stop people like me. Bahahah.

STUFF THAT DOESN’T BELONG ON THE FIRST LIST (BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE MISLEADING!):

1. Super fast internet. When you can actually access the atrocity that is Bebo, it’s not that bad. It’s rather addicting instead…
2. I have developed mad EFTPOS card skillz.
3. Taking lots of photos. I never did that much in 2007.
4. My Political Studies lecturer from first semester—or the fun I have in being a fan of him. Actually all of my lecturers, and I get a trifle too excited after running into them outside of lectures. It’s embarrassing.
5. The food is very mysterious a lot of the time. Meal times have been turned into an adventure.
6. Even at the end of the year, I still got lost in Dunedin. It’s great fun.

the bad thing about obama

It’s his supporters. Here’s what annoys me about them:

a). The excessive use of “YES WE CAN” everywhere. You actually sound like mindless idiots, oh hey. Or worse, “YES WE HAVE”—we’re not done fixing everything yet.
b). Supporting Obama because he’s either young or black or has a nice voice… Yes, because policies don’t mean a thing. I really hate people on Bebo sometimes.

I’m so glad he won. But also terrified that everyone’s going to be so caught up with idolising him that they’re not going to notice the things he’ll do wrong—let alone call him out on it. He’s the best shot we have, but you’re kidding yourself to think he’s going to be perfect. That he’s going to be the amazing president the campaign promised.

…Even if I will save pictures of him looking particularly nice, ahaha. Yaaayy.

But if the concept OBAMA IS HUMAN is too hard to grasp, watch videos of his first press conference as president elect. Watch his hands, even. He’s freaking out.

LAWS101B: it’s overrrr

Earlier in the week our friend at Carrington dropped off a little study package for Law at my door. Stress ball, mixed CD, chocolate, sparklers, $1 scratchie… it was so awesome.

Rylands v Fletcher, Donoghue v Stevenson

I’ve noticed this question tends to have has someone suing someone under one line of cases, and then the person being sued says “It’s not my fault! I’m gonna bring in this other guy as a third party under the other line of cases!”

Also, other questions have tended to make it really obvious who you could sue. This one didn’t, and the people I wanted to sue were bankrupt… Woe!
          I really panicked at this point. I chose to do this question first—because it’s really straightforward—and I couldn’t even figure out who was going to sue who… I took longer than I wanted because of it.

The Random Essay

We’re asked to write about some law-related subject. Are criminal lawyers justified in what they do? Things like that. The same questions are asked every year, and everyone just memorises an answer before the exam. The lecturer doesn’t like this (especially since people can memorise essays that aren’t their own, but got good marks in previous years), so I wrote it second. That way it wouldn’t be quite so obvious that I memorised it, haha.

…I memorised my own essay, by the way. “Should there be a parallel legal system for Maori?” The arguments for it are really persuasive, but I hated the whole idea of it anyway so I picked that question to figure out why.

Finders

Tested us on who has the right to a lost object that is found. When should the occupier of a building or the employer get to keep it instead of the person who actually found it?

It was very much like an older question which we had covered in a tutorial at SMC, so it wasn’t too bad… um… yeah.

Entrapment / Confessions

This was about police officers going undercover and getting people to commit crimes, and the fine line between getting people who would have done it anyway, and “seducing non-offenders”… into crime, that is. Dun dun dunnnn.
          The second part is when there’s all this drama after the guy gets arrested and he makes a confession. You want to see whether it should be admitted. It’s a combination of using statutes and cases, unlike the other questions.

Whether you’re gonna kick out a confession depends on whether the exclusion would be “proportionate to the impropriety”, so there’s this balancing you have to do. I started this but ran out of time, and threw down a random conclusion in the few remaining seconds. Baahhhh!

Conclusion!

I’ve never ever written so much in an exam before. Legal opinions everywhere. My fingers have ink all over them.

I know I’m going to dwell on not finishing that last part properly, but I’m still hoping that it won’t be that damaging. Also it’s clear that I knew what I was doing for that part anyway, and just ran out of time. I’m also always going to be wondering whether I used enough cases, or explained things well enough… but whatever.
          At least I get to sleep in tomorrow. Usually Thursday is when my room gets vacuumed… but they’re not doing that anymore. Yayyyy.

also happy birthday little sister~ ♥

I didn’t forget her even in the morning when I was half-asleep before the exam, or afterwards when we were all “YAY WE FINISHED” (and I was listening to that boy with a nice voice talking about his funny law-related dreams, too!). I’m such a sweetie. Haven’t sent the present in the mail just yet though… And I think Mum should make another birthday cake for when I come back home, so we can actually celebrate together, yus! :D