MBA LAW CLASS

I am having an interesting experience with this law class that I am in. I have to take Business law as a part of the MBA program. I find this class very interesting as I learn about new facets of law everyday. It is entirely different from my engineering school experience. I like the different unique cases that the instructor discusses. I was even surprised by some of the lawsuits mentioned in the books and how they became precedents for future cases.

Even though I like certain parts of this class, for example the novelty of being in an entirely different class which has no reference to engineering, I dislike many elements of this class. First of, I hate the tremendous amounts of busy work that is being doled out to the students in the class. I am not a busy work kind of guy. I never did busy work in engineering school. Of course I practiced problems after I understood the ideas but I did not go around reading different articles, briefing them, etc. I don’t mind briefing cases but turning a bunch of them in every week and doing a work book along with a class project is definitely overwhelming.

I now wonder if I made a mistake by taking this class first. The fact that I have been out of school for a couple of years on top of my general dislike to reading big books is making it very hard for me to catch up with the class. I did not expect an MBA program to be so taxing especially for part-time students. I am thinking it may just be this one class that is so time consuming. But if other classes in the program turn out to this way, then I might have to drop the program here and go to another school that is less taxing on part-time students who work full-time.

Also the fact that there are full-time students in my class is not helping my cause. These guys have all the time in the world and are all excited to do more projects.