One thing that separates me from most of my classmates thus far in law school is that I take notes on paper with a pen during class. The issue with typing my notes is that I type rather quickly, and it's very easy for me to fall into a pattern of just transcribing the course instead of actually engaging in the material. In law school, the professors regularly call on people to engaging in a substantive conversation about the subject matter, so it's better to stay right with them than to drift off into taking dictation.
After class, I like to go back over my handwritten notes, both from my notebook and from the textbook, to type up a summary of what we discussed to solidify it all and make it easy to protect the data from loss.
As I sat in this sweltering library today, I pulled out my notes written in the margins of the case we were discussing today.
Written at the top of a page in the middle of the case:
"Key difference here: public officials engaging in official grocery store--essence of 1st amendment."
This case has nothing to do with a grocery store. We weren't discussing grocery stores.
Grocery stores have nothing to do with the first amendment.
I'm going to attribute that one to the heat...
3 comments:
ha ha ha! That is so funny. I totally do that all the time and I have no excuse. But I did read somewhere that NY is having worst heat wave in years!
So funny :) I remember writing a few random notes myself while in college. Many times, I fell asleep while taking notes, and my pen just left a long line across the paper as my hand drifted off of my desk....I suppose I would never make it as a law student!
Hee hee...
I'm sure somewhere, at some time, a grocery store has had to deal with first amendment issues.
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