Mid-studying 36 hour Puerto Rican Adventure

I chose to take the more local bar prep class, instead of the Big Commercial Bar Prep Course That Everyone Else Takes, because I think I'll prefer live lectures to videotaped. It's amazing to me that these companies can get away with charging over $2500 for the privilege of sitting in a room for four hours a day watching videotapes. If I wanted to watch videos all summer, I would go to two movies per day in the theater, for five days a week, and pay the premium price of $10 per movie. So that's $100 per week ($20/day x 5 days/week), which is roughly $400-$500 per month. If I did that for three months, I would pay a total of $1500, which is still significantly cheaper than even the bar prep course I'm taking. I know a lot more about law school than I do film, but I'm willing to bet that it's a lot more expensive to make a major motion picture than it is to make a video for a bar prep course, yet it's a lot cheaper to go to the movies than it is to bar prep.

Anyway, my point is that my bar prep class is smaller and more personalized. As soon as I paid my deposit last week, I got an e-mail from the VP letting me know that if I had any questions about my study schedule, I should contact them. I immediately e-mailed them to find out the "expert/professional" opinion on just how detrimental it would be to my bar prep to go to Puerto Rico for a weekend in late June to go to my best friend's wedding. I got a long response yesterday, that concluded by the VP telling me he thought I should go to the wedding, which was the response I wanted, but not the response I expected. So I went ahead and bought my ticket, and I'll be in Puerto Rico for about 36 hours. I'm thinking of it as a scoping out trip, to decide if it's somewhere I want to go on a real vacation.

P.S. I had my last real law school class today. Yay!