My buddy AK's lawblog 1L Hell has an incredibly awesome post, probably my favorite out of the dozen or so posts he has up so far very early into his first semester at law school. He compares law school to one of our favorite pasttimes of college: Mario Kart. So good is it, I must quote it in its entirety.
Law school, my friends, is like Mario Kart. If you are the student, let's just call you Wario, who talks all day in class to try and impress the professor while also trying to burn all the students during the first two weeks, you will undoubtedly fail, or get hit by the ominous spiked blue shell, in the long run.
If you get too far ahead of your reading, you run the risk of driving directly into a fake-item bomb, or worse yet, a patch of 5 strategically placed bananas. You will never know what curve your professor will throw you late in the race, and you need to be prepared for that by not overpreparing.
If you start outlining before you know what the professor really wants of you, you'll be trying the jump on Koopa Troopa Beach at 150cc while someone else in your rally has lightning. It's a terrible idea, and you will undoubtedly smack into the wall while your classmates sail through the pass, or worse yet, stomp on your head.
The best advice I've been given about 1l, is to sit back and prepare in the middle of the race, while always keeping a 3 red shell defense handy. If you happen to get a Starman, an outline from an upper level student with the same professor, you should time your use and use it wisely. If you cash it in too quick, it may not be useful in the end. However, if you wait too long, Luigi might pass you and get the coveted A.
Watch out for other students who clearly have the Boo, or ghost weapon, in their sights. Peak over to their screen to find out if they're planning to use it, if you have to. They wish only to sit back and wait till you have a good weapon, like the clear understanding of the cases built through hours of hard work, and steal it. Do not ever let them steal your Starman, especially if they try to convince you that they will trade their green shell for it.
Lastly, your fellow law students are your friends. If you instead make them your enemies and battle them at Skyscraper, you'll all fall off together. Nobody will do well at school. You need to work with them, to 'rally together,' so that everyone can do well.
I know that there will be pleny more eggcellent observations to come.
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