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17 Nova L. Rev. 849 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.journals/novalr17 and id is 881 raw text is: Concise Guide to Surviving the First Year of Law School Oren S. Tasini* WEEK ONE You're already behind. Don't worry. The objective is to demoralize you in the first week. Don't let it happen. Don't bother to outline the cases. Instead make friends with second year students and borrow their out- lines. They have already done the work for you. (Don't bother with third year students. They want you to suffer like they did. The second year stu- dents lack the cynicism learned in the second year of law school.) If a professor tells you not to buy commercial outlines, buy them. It's a sure bet that she steals exam questions from them. WEEK Two Your classmates have started to form study groups. This is a very dangerous moment for you. Pick the wrong study group and your life will be a living hell. Find a study group where the other people will do the work. If they look to you for guidance it means big trouble. The concept of admitting that other law students may be brighter or more hardworking is a difficult concept for most first year students. Therefore, you have an advantage. Use it to your benefit. WEEK THREE If your property professor pretends that he understands the Rule Against Perpetuities you know he is a fraud. Show him how smart you are by reminding him that most states have adopted statutes with savings clauses where the Rule is inapplicable so why bother to learn the Rule. This will * © 1993 Oren S. Tasini. Oren Tasini is an Associate (a fancy name for indentured servant) with the law firm of Fleming, Haile, Shaw & Gundlach, P.A. in Palm Beach, Florida. He is a graduate (by the grace of God and through religious adherence to the principles set forth in the Concise Guide to Surviving the First Year of Law School) of Georgetown University Law Center. He is currently working on a concise guide to surviving the modem practice of law, tentatively entitled: Early Retirement.

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