Today marks the end of a very long week (though it was more than just a week) for this girl. I just turned in my Journal Submission to get onto a journal at the law school. What's a journal? Why is it important? Those are good questions that I have answered a lot in the past few weeks haha. So... a synopsis is in order. Law journals are scholarly avenues for academic publishing in the field of law. Think of it as a scientific journal that is reviewed by students if that helps. Articles are submitted to the school from law professors , judges, and practitioners all over the country. Sometimes, students are published as well for their 'note' which is similar to a thesis paper (seriously, if someone had told me that I had to write a thesis, I might have rethought law school!). However, I now know that I'll have to write one of these notes. When you're on a journal, you generally write a note about the subject of your journal.
So at my law school, we have 7 journals. To get on a journal is a pretty big deal. It looks great on a resume and it gives a lot of great experience with research and editing.
So anyway, that background information was to say that the Journal Competition went down from Thursday night until Monday at 8 PM (about an hour ago as I write this). To get on a journal you have to compete in the competition at school. About 70% of your overall competition score comes down to GPA. The other 30% is the writing competition. My experience was ... intense! We got a packet of about 360 pages. There's a subject case and then other cases, blogs, journal articles, newspaper clips, and online sources to supplement the case. When I submitted my packet, I chose in what order I wanted membership. Only one Journal picks you. After they tally up the score, various journal representatives go into a room and choose members. There's not a lot of information floating around about this part (I think they enjoy the secrecy), but I've heard it's like a draft pick. I also don't understand draft picks, but there ya go.
The competition section has a citation, objective writing, and subjective writing component. They choose the weekend before Spring Break starts each year, and competitors will not find out if they made a journal until June or July or maybe even August of this summer! WISH ME LUCK!
Disclaimer: I'm sure this post is extremely boring to most people, but you never know what interested pre-law or law school friend will read it and be grateful for the knowledge! Plus it's like all I've been talking about these past few days.
So at my law school, we have 7 journals. To get on a journal is a pretty big deal. It looks great on a resume and it gives a lot of great experience with research and editing.
So anyway, that background information was to say that the Journal Competition went down from Thursday night until Monday at 8 PM (about an hour ago as I write this). To get on a journal you have to compete in the competition at school. About 70% of your overall competition score comes down to GPA. The other 30% is the writing competition. My experience was ... intense! We got a packet of about 360 pages. There's a subject case and then other cases, blogs, journal articles, newspaper clips, and online sources to supplement the case. When I submitted my packet, I chose in what order I wanted membership. Only one Journal picks you. After they tally up the score, various journal representatives go into a room and choose members. There's not a lot of information floating around about this part (I think they enjoy the secrecy), but I've heard it's like a draft pick. I also don't understand draft picks, but there ya go.
The competition section has a citation, objective writing, and subjective writing component. They choose the weekend before Spring Break starts each year, and competitors will not find out if they made a journal until June or July or maybe even August of this summer! WISH ME LUCK!
Disclaimer: I'm sure this post is extremely boring to most people, but you never know what interested pre-law or law school friend will read it and be grateful for the knowledge! Plus it's like all I've been talking about these past few days.
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