OH MY GOODNESS. SLS ASSIGNMENT, PLEASE DIE. PLEASE DISAPPEAR OFF THE FACE OF THE WORLD AND DON'T BOTHER ME EVER AGAIN.
Okay, this new assignment is hopelessly irritating. And difficult. And confusing. I suspect a long, hard night tonight, simply because i haven't done much to further my work along in the past 12 hours or so.
You could say that it's because of, well, other distractions. *Er Hem!!* But i really do think that the unique nature of this assignment has got to take some of the blame as well.
Put it this way: it's framed like a GP essay question, but unlike GP essay questions, you can only take your information from certain articles and cases, and as such, every single one of your opinions needs to be backed with proper evidence or authority. You can't throw out creative opinions because hey, you're not a judge or anything of that sort. Your subjective views of what is truly justice is not of any importance to the rest of us. If your opinion is not supported by someone of any importance, it will not be heard.
Worst of all, unlike GP essays, we're now examined under MUCH HIGHER STANDARDS THAN BEFORE. Not really because we're any smarter or whatever, but because we're expected to have all the information and thought processes of all those articles in our heads, and we're supposed to USE those facts and ideas. The thing is that there are people who've read the articles over and over and absorbed every damn detail. But I'M NOT ONE OF THEM. I read slowly. I get sleepy and distracted easily because i read slowly. I don't have all of this information at my fingertips. I'm dead meat. The paper is graded by comparing my paper to approximately 230 of the other students...and at the moment, i'd say that among that group of people, my paper's somewhere near the bottom of the pile.
Some people might also think that it's like a history question. But unlike history questions, what we're dealing with here are mostly OPINIONS. And these opinions are also DIFFERING. You don't get differing facts in your history textbook without any proper explanation (like perhaps that area of history is unknown or perhaps one version was propoganda), but you DO get differing opinions in law essays without any explanation for it at all. Your task is to find out
what those reasons are, by reading
in between the lines and discovering the author's underlying ideas in a very objective manner. Very literature-ish? Well, i wouldn't know.
But of course, most of the time there aren't any real reasons at all! It's just one judge's moral compass against another's. The bottom line is that it's all very
frustrating. We aren't allowed to play Judge because those Judges are just playing normal people.
Okay, i'm not making any sense. I'm just rather irritated with the whole thing. VERY irritated. I'm getting frantic, desperate even. I want to enjoy myself tomorrow, but for that to happen i need to finish my work first.
So enough typing on this blog, because it was all just a waste of time anyway. I'm not even going to bother to check for any spelling or grammatical mistakes.
I'm tired. It's past 12am already; 14 hours have gone by and i only have about 9hours left. I'm not even halfway through coming up with the proper POINTS. What are the chances of me even finishing this assignment on time? Let's not even talk about getting a wink of sleep.
