1L Exam Prep and Motivation Thread Forum

[pleasetryagain]

hmm, that is what I am thinking on the one hand. but I asked because if you buy half of someone's fee simple estate you are not in possession of the "original party's entire estate." so I am thinking maybe you aren't bound by the covenant anymore? but like you said, you are in possession of the entire durational interest. I'll ask my prof on Monday and post answer here.

Raw law is correct. you dont have to be in possession of the grantors' (servient) entire physical estate. You just have to have the entire interest in what you do have (fee simple, no lease/life estate etc). B could sell you 1/2 or 1/200 of his land and you would still be burdened by the covenant. See HOA example.

[Holly Golightly]

I outlined 10 pages of reading today. That counts for something, right?

[pleasetryagain]

I outlined 10 pages of reading today. That counts for something, right?

Counts for 10 less pages than you had to do this morning. I read and outline a 200 page property supplement on future interests. I feel pretty winning until I realize I still have 2/3 of the class left to do.

[Morgan12Oak]

I planned to outline today from noon till 10 pm. I started outlining at 11 pm yet am finally hitting my stride. I feel like I should take advantage of this rare productivity and pull an all-nighter.

[Tangerine Gleam]

I planned to outline today from noon till 10 pm. I started outlining at 11 pm yet am finally hitting my stride. I feel like I should take advantage of this rare productivity and pull an all-nighter.

Dude what are you doing on the internet GET BACK 2 WORK

[YourCaptain]

I just spent today cramming most of a semester of Civ Pro into my brain.

Personal Jurisdiction / Venue does not seem that hard.

PJ is incredibly amenable to a flowchart, which makes it easier to tackle on the exam

except of course when your professor only permits you use of the FRCP and nothing else

[snowpeach06]

I just spent today cramming most of a semester of Civ Pro into my brain.

Personal Jurisdiction / Venue does not seem that hard.

PJ is incredibly amenable to a flowchart, which makes it easier to tackle on the exam

except of course when your professor only permits you use of the FRCP and nothing else

Yup. Luckily it has a few pages in which to cram a short outline, but, my teacher won't even let us tab the book. That's gonna suck because it means I have to memorize the number for every rule, and then spend time finding them.

[traehekat]

I just spent today cramming most of a semester of Civ Pro into my brain.

Personal Jurisdiction / Venue does not seem that hard.

PJ is incredibly amenable to a flowchart, which makes it easier to tackle on the exam

except of course when your professor only permits you use of the FRCP and nothing else

Yup. Luckily it has a few pages in which to cram a short outline, but, my teacher won't even let us tab the book. That's gonna suck because it means I have to memorize the number for every rule, and then spend time finding them.

I just don't get some professors. He/she won't let you tab the book? What exactly is that supposed to be testing? Who can flip through the book the quickest?

[snowpeach06]

I just don't get some professors. He/she won't let you tab the book? What exactly is that supposed to be testing? Who can flip through the book the quickest?

Our ability to memorize the number of a rule. Cuse lord knows in practice I can't just google it. Or have a tabbed book saying the name of the rule vs. it's number. My teacher is great. But she always asks "and what rule is that?" I'm like... who the fuck cares? As long as we know the contents of said rule. But, whatever.

[swc65]

I outlined 10 pages of reading today. That counts for something, right?

Counts for 10 less pages than you had to do this morning. I read and outline a 200 page property supplement on future interests. I feel pretty winning until I realize I still have 2/3 of the class left to do.

We skipped future interests!! no RAP or all of that jazz. We still have to do present interests, which aint all that hard.

[D. H2Oman]

lol I know nothing about property

So far I've read exactly two property cases, and one of them was unassigned. This is going to end well.

[Cemoore4]

I just spent today cramming most of a semester of Civ Pro into my brain.

Personal Jurisdiction / Venue does not seem that hard.

PJ is incredibly amenable to a flowchart, which makes it easier to tackle on the exam

except of course when your professor only permits you use of the FRCP and nothing else

Our prof won't even let us use the FRCP. Should be fun.

[geekrocker37]

I dream of last Semester and Civ Pro. Tabbing the FRCP, making flow charts, oh those were the days.

Open Notes Civ Pro > Closed Note Property and Contract exams.

[snowpeach06]

If anyone is looking for a good way to procrastinate, I highly recommend watching episodes of Episodes. Google will give you a bit of trouble, but type in showtime and you can see it online. Like, the perfect blend of British and American humor. Now that I've just finished watching all 7 episodes, I have to go back to trying to figure out what the hell estates and future interests are.

[zeth006]

Arg. Trying to review whatever the hell I went through in property this past week. Prof put a ton of info in the slides concerning the Fair Housing Act and the CRA of 1866. We unfortunately got into one tangent after another and wound up not going over a good chunk of the material.

[gwuorbust]

just printed out the last 20 years of my K II professors exams. he taught K II every year. I think my print job killed a small tree.

[Holly Golightly]

How am I supposed to outline when I have a billion pages of reading for this week?! Gah.

[Stanford4Me]

just printed out the last 20 years of my K II professors exams. he taught K II every year. I think my print job killed a small tree.

Are you going to be able to go through 20 years of exams AND focus on your other classes?

[swc65]

just printed out the last 20 years of my K II professors exams. he taught K II every year. I think my print job killed a small tree.

OMG i was probably the cute charlies brown Christmas tree! You bastard!!!

[Stanford4Me]

just printed out the last 20 years of my K II professors exams. he taught K II every year. I think my print job killed a small tree.

OMG i was probably the cute charlies brown Christmas tree! You bastard!!!

[swc65]

just printed out the last 20 years of my K II professors exams. he taught K II every year. I think my print job killed a small tree.

Are you going to be able to go through 20 years of exams AND focus on your other classes?

I would use ten to just read and get a feel for what the professors asks, five for pure issue spotting, two for issue spotting and outlining., and then three to do full length exams. One of the mistakes I made last semester was taking too many practice exams. In the few days before my last final, I was so burnt out, I simply could not study!! I seriously just couldn't do it at all. Taking the exam was hell too.

[gwuorbust]

just printed out the last 20 years of my K II professors exams. he taught K II every year. I think my print job killed a small tree.

Are you going to be able to go through 20 years of exams AND focus on your other classes?

I would use ten to just read and get a feel for what the professors asks, five for pure issue spotting, two for issue spotting and outlining., and then three to do full length exams. One of the mistakes I made last semester was taking too many practice exams. In the few days before my last final, I was so burnt out, I simply could not study!! I seriously just couldn't do it at all. Taking the exam was hell too.

my plan is to take a few one hour chunks to get a feel for his exam style. I'll put like 3 or 4 exams aside. and then using the other ~12 I'll cross reference similar things that come up consistently across his exams. pull those consistent themes. then, closer to finals, I'll take those 3 or 4 full length exams and hopefully be good to go.

[Gatriel]

Checking in

Still same as last week. Stupid LRW finals (3 of them) sucks up all my time for the next two weeks. Jesus I hate LRW with such a passion.

[dailygrind]

anyone got a list of youtube motivational clips? i'm making a folder for the rough times. so far my favorites are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNP16ulyd6c

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs

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