Sunday, February 28, 2010
Trial mockery
Just got back from watching Round 4 of the regional mock trial tournament. The Hunter team, being somewhat less than ideally prepared, opted not to compete, but some of us still went to watch (all the way out at St. John's in Queens. Bit of a trek). Just watched one trial. It was cool to see. The more experienced teams are definitely more polished with the procedural details, pretrial stuff, etc, which was intimidating, or would have been if we'd been competing against them. It's great to watch a case where you actually know all the details, and see one version of that trial actually played out. Learned a lot; both teams had some nice strategic and tactical moves that we hadn't thought of. And it was a good ego-boost to see that there's some stuff they missed which we've been going over for months (we overall know the rules of evidence and case law better than they seemed to). Overall fun. Snobby Manhattanite that I am, I never thought It'd say this, but it was definitely worth it to get up at 7:00 AM just o spend 4 hours in Queens.
Snow Day = Sore Body
So, New York City public schools had their second snow day in two weeks, which is just wild! NYC is notorious for making students weather the storm despite the conditions outside. Nevertheless, 2010 has softened New York City's heart, and the days off have been wonderful.
On a darker note, my CHC class has been hell. :-( The teacher is very insightful and knowledgeable, but the workload is terrible. For the past three weekends, I have been assigned three different books - The World in a City by Joseph Berger, Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto, and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis - all of which I had to read for the next class. Pretty much, life hasn't been great for the past couple months. I have been doing pretty well with keeping up with the reading, but it is just too much. I should probably be reading now...
In any event, the snow day brought about a massive snowball fight at Brookdale, and a tackle football game right after. I pretty much got clobbered by snowballs and then slammed during the match... I am in need of some R & R.
Fun picture below.
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