Snood v Sniadach

Law School is an arms race. Normal competitive pressures, a strict curve, and tuition in excess of $30,000 combine to create a situation where spending an extra $200/semester on supplements* starts to seem like a reasonable idea. It makes sense: $200 on study aids adds less than 1% on top of what is already an impossibly large bill and seems like a good investment even if it only were to raise your rank a few steps. You almost feel like you have to so long as everyone else is doing it... Luckily, I have a much more cost-effective strategy: forget your laptop.

I forgot to bring mine the the other day to Property, and I learned that you can learn an awful lot about property when you're not distraced by the pleasures of Snood, the internet and all that relaxing pornography, or (lord only knows how people can play this game so much) spider solitaire. I've never been so engaged in a class in my life. I've thought about just leaving my ethernet cord home from now on, and using the laptop solely for notes, but it won't work. I have a wireless connection, and not enough willpower to keep myself from using it.

I'm not going to make this a regular habit, by any means. CivPro just couldn't be done without an internet connection, and I need Lexis for ConLaw. I'm just saying that if you really want to learn the law or whatever is is we've been doing for the past six months: save your laptop for the final exam.

*Note: don't actually buy supplements, the library is stacked with everything you need (except for torts, because Lady Duff and I checked them all out).