class preparation is always good

Today my school held a series of introductory classes to teach students how to brief cases and how to prepare for class.

It was very useful to me, but not for the reasons the professor envisioned. We were supposed to read a very famous Property case, Pierson v. Post, which is, as I discovered later, mercifully short. It is also the second case in my Property book, rather than the first.

I instead read, and briefed, the first case in my book, a much longer case. It took me hours, and I was beginning to panic at the prospect of having a professor who assigned such a case for her fake introductory class.

I'm glad I learned how it feels to come to class unprepared on a practice class, not a real one. It was not a pleasant sensation.