Flashcards!

I haven't been makin' them. Didn't really see a need to. Until now. You don't really need to memorize the elements and stuff when you're just doing multiple choices. But when I did my first written question today I realize something. They expect me to regurgitate a mini outline of the law! Holy crap. This means I have to copy the elements of every tort, and and...everything, onto index cards. I, see, now.

Part of me think this is just silly. I mean I did memorize the multiplication tables but that is useful. I don't think lawyers actually know this crap if you asked them. So we're memorizing something only to forget it again. Which is dumb.

But come to think of it again, if we were given mini outlines on the essays, the essays would just turn into a writing contest and that just isn't fair. The only fair way to test is to test our capacity to memorize. Anything. We might as well be memorizing nursery rhymes.

Anyhow so I began making flashcards in earnest. For a moment I thought about doing them on Microsoft Access, but then decided to go paper. I don't want to carry around my computer all the time.

This guy is doing our Evidence lectures. He's material is not as funny as the previous one. But he's pretty clear. The one funny comment he made was totally unprepared. The microphone he'd been using was going nuts. After minutes of struggling with it in vain, he said, "I knew I shouldn't have turned on my pacemaker this morning." That got a giggle out of me.