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TTH wrote:not working as hard as I should. I do most of my reading 30 minutes to an hour before class.
I don't know that studying is necessarily the most important thing. It's just whatever it takes to help you understand things. I, personally, get through all my readings pretty quickly, look up cases I don't understand online, and spend like 15 minutes taking notes. But I think the most helpful thing so far was attending the tutoring sessions my school has, and outlining with a group of people. If exams are open book anyway, all you really need is to understand and have a good outline with legal wording translated into stuff you'll understand. Like, I put the law terminology, incase I need it and then under that whatever it takes for me to get a concept. They also told us about this 'in' and 'out' case thing. Cases, will, for example say what makes for a valid contract, while out cases say what doesn't make for a valid contract. Somehow thinking of cases like that really helped me.TobiasFunke wrote:Exactly. I KNOW I should be reading. I know law school's hard. But I can't shake my undergrad habit of not doing anything until exam day.TTH wrote:not working as hard as I should. I do most of my reading 30 minutes to an hour before class.
I don't know what it takes to get me off my ass, but I NEED TO FIND IT.
I feel dumber for having read this paragraph--confusing construction.snowpeach06 wrote:I don't know that studying is necessarily the most important thing. It's just whatever it takes to help you understand things. I, personally, get through all my readings pretty quickly, look up cases I don't understand online, and spend like 15 minutes taking notes. But I think the most helpful thing so far was attending the tutoring sessions my school has, and outlining with a group of people. If exams are open book anyway, all you really need is to understand and have a good outline with legal wording translated into stuff you'll understand. Like, I put the law terminology, incase I need it and then under that whatever it takes for me to get a concept. They also told us about this 'in' and 'out' case thing. Cases, will, for example say what makes for a valid contract, while out cases say what doesn't make for a valid contract. Somehow thinking of cases like that really helped me.TobiasFunke wrote:Exactly. I KNOW I should be reading. I know law school's hard. But I can't shake my undergrad habit of not doing anything until exam day.TTH wrote:not working as hard as I should. I do most of my reading 30 minutes to an hour before class.
I don't know what it takes to get me off my ass, but I NEED TO FIND IT.
snowpeach06 wrote:Much more of an alcoholic than I was in undergrad. But, I also think I spend more hours in the library in any given week than I did in my entire undergrad career combined. So to answer the question I'm one month in and I feel like I'm completely balanced, and starting to get the hang of things.
Same boat...I'm starting with crim law, though. I'm lacking motivation at the moment, since I'm highly intimidated by the intelligence most of my peers have displayed. It's week 7 and I working to get it together. I think it's hermit time for me for awhile.joeshmo39 wrote:... now realizing it is go-time and that I need to step it up. I outlined for torts over this weekend and the fact I have outlined 1/2 of 1/4 of my classes and that it was very tough sledding means I have a lot more in store. I also need to be better reading supps and hornbooks I'm just way behind where my more ambitious summer-self told me I'd be. I know based on some convos that I'm ahead of a lot of people at school but I'm still not going to be super if I don't step up. Who knows if I actually will.