Note Taken:

When law professor asks the class, "what do you think?". He doesn't really want to know your personal feelings on the issue of a particular case. (this note is for Mr. Mentally-ill-14-year-olds-who-commit-murder-should-be-sentenced-to-death sitting in the middle row) He wants you to make an analytical comment on the court ruling at stake. He wants you to think it through and question or support it in light of previous cases we have discussed. . .

Wow, for the first time ever, I have actually read ahead of the class assignment schedule. This was purely a mistake, I assure you, and will never happen again.

The number of different short cut methods being undertaken by students to prep for our final is astonishing. I am worried because so far, I am prepping in old school, poor college student fashion-- by reading the material over and over.

I have seen criminal law flash cards, audio recordings of professor's lectures, cheat sheets, study guides and outlines. I know someone who outright went to the Prof. outside of class and ask him for copies of last year's exam. Like law school would be that easy....

I think people are prone to forgetting that we are paying for an education, not for a grade or for a class ranking. The point is to learn, not cram, and not to know only what will be on the final exam.