To start, I will disclaim, as lawyers are known to do: bringing pre-written rule sections into an exam is only ok if your exam is open note and, even then, just to be safe, if your professor says it’s ok. (Don’t worry, for those of you who won’t be able to bring your rule sections to your exam with you, keep reading anyway – they’re still worth writing!)
So, why go through the effort of pre-writing rule sections when you’re just going to have to go ahead and re-write them on the exam anyway and, on top of that, you’re not even entirely sure what’s going to be tested? Here’s why: [Read more…] about Prepare For Exams By Pre-Writing Rule Sections
Law school exams can often feel completely untethered from what your entire semester seemed to be about. You may have spent a week of Torts learning an unabridged history of Learned Hand’s eating habits, only to discover during test time that all you were supposed to take away from those lectures was that P x L must be greater than B to impose negligence liability.
Once the “Why?” of going to law school has been figured out, and you’ve made the decision to go, before thinking about “
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Every time a new semester rolls around, assembling your schedule can feel like a game of academic roulette. You may spend hours concocting DIY algorithms for finding the perfect paper-to-exam ratio, then fall down a rabbit hole of professor ratings and reviews for a few days. And when the time comes to actually register for classes, it can be a glitch-ridden race of getting into a coveted class that threatens to fill up within 30 seconds. On top of this looms the question of which classes you actually want to take. 
Staying connected to your creative side in law school can be hard when IRAC seems specifically designed to hammer the individualism right out of you. While actual lawyering can eventually provide opportunities to be innovative, law school is not known for nurturing the creative spirit that many people have upon arrival.