I'm alive, just uber busy
I know I said I wanted to maintain my same study habits for at least a semester to see how it served me in law school. Well, I did do this, except my study habits suck. It's near the end of the semester and I think I've finally worked out a better method for preparing for class and perhaps for preparing for the finals. The whole "briefing cases" thing was a pain and wasn't really useful in all of my classes. I did have one class where the professor would run through the facts of the case in great detail, but it seems like in most classes, at least for the final, you'd be better off just analyzing a bit of the court's "big picture" reasoning/rationale, and then taking note of the holding.
So a typical note for a brief would be like XYZ v ABC - Court decided *whatever* because of *this and that*. That way my notes for most cases are just one or two paragraphs long.
I uh, haven't had any exams yet, so we'll see how this goes. I think next semester I'll try mostly doing this, depending on the format of the class, and see how that serves me. It seems like our finals are mostly going to be about analyzing fact patterns and for that, I feel like I only need the holdings and some of the rationale from cases to back up my various assertions.
