NUSL Blog: Amy

Midst of finals...

I'm so close to being done! Finals at Tufts are a night and day difference from NUSL. To start, I don't have any actual in-class exams this semester. This doesn't always happen, though; guess I got lucky. Unlike law school exams, where you're not done until the exam's over, I've got two (group) assignments left, and we can be done as soon as we push ourselves to finish. Well, as long as it's before the 20th! My stress level is (almost) zero compared to law school finals.

I'm looking forward to next semester. We have to take Biostatistics, but I got into a class I wanted to take at Boston Univ. School of Public Health, so that makes up for it. It's a course called "Legal Strategies to Reduce Health Risks," and I'm really excited about it. It's an avenue I want to pursue in my career, so hopefully it will provide me with a very practical classroom experience.

In other news, I have a possible placement for my Applied Learning Experience, or ALE. That's the Tufts name for the Master's thesis. More on this once I know for sure...

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Finals!

We're heading into finals here at Tufts, so this one's going to be brief, sorry! I heard through the grapevine that there's been a lot of interest in the JD/MPH program this year, which is great! I guess some of you have been considering whether to apply to Tufts along with your NUSL application or wait until spring of your 1L year. The benefit to applying now is that a spot will already be reserved for you in the next year's class (and they won't have your first semester law school evaluations to consider). Personally, I applied in February of my 1L year and it really was not that difficult. I just had to fill out Tufts' one-page form and write a short personal statement. Other than that, NUSL will just send your admissions file over to Tufts, and you're done! I chose to do it this way because I was stressed out enough with all of my law school apps that year. If you're able to take on another type of grad school app at the same time, more power to you! Of the 11 of us in the program this year, I don't think anyone applied at the same time as they applied to NUSL. In fact, three of my classmates applied and were admitted after their 2L year. (But DON'T count on this; they really don't like students to do it this way, so they may not let you in.) If you have any further questions, please email me or post a question to the blog. I love it because then I don't have to think of a blog topic out of nowhere for the week!

(You can tell that it's finals and I'm sleeping less by the inordinate amount of exclamation points!) (and parentheses!)

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Amy, 3L

Midst of finals...

Finals!