[Prudence]

I had to withdraw from the moot court competition.

The students on the moot court board this year can't be bothered to do the actual work associated with their little resume booster. So, they delayed getting the in-house competition started, delayed getting results to us, and didn't co-ordinate the in-house competition with the regional competition. So, I'm supposed to sign my name to a piece of paper swearing that I'll compete, that won't be turned in until next week, and then - and only then - when the regional competition processes it, they'll assign us a side.

So, I'd have a 50/50 chance of being assigned to the opposite side and having to REWRITE the entire brief in about 10 days to meet the brief submission deadline. And the moot court board's response? Oh well - take it up with the regional competition people. THEY should be doing that. THEY should be getting us coaches.

Meanwhile, other schools that signed up their teams in May had all this time to work on their briefs. But SU wants to send its students into competition with 10 days to work on it.

It's completely ridiculous. I can not re-write the brief, prepare both sides of the oral argument, recruit my own coach -- and continue with my other coursework.

So, they said I had to withdraw. So I did.

Once again - any time I accomplish something, any time it's one step forward it's two steps backwards.