Sunday, August 19, 2007
Incoming PC Students:
The Ladybird, a veteran of "the experience" has kindly offered up these PC survival tips. I would add to her list: (1) Buy lots of jello, and (2) Don't think PR is the reading you don't have to do.
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I'll add a couple of my own:
1. I agree with what Ladybird said about getting there early. Despite what the schedule says, PC I starts at 7:45. You should probably be there no later than 7:30 (and even earlier on day 1).
2. I'll say what she was too tactful to say about the "shrapnel zone:" It doesn't matter how close you and your friends are, assess their work ethic and if you think they won't be prepared every day do NOT sit next to them...you will pay the price.
3. Along those same lines, NEVER volunteer, EVER. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I can think of several times this last PC cycle where people volunteered and it blew up in their faces.
4. I know its a widespread practice, but don't just take a former PC student's old cases and rely on the highlighting/underlining from that old student. You'll never learn the material that way and you'll pay the price when you get called on. The only way to learn is to read the cases yourself.
5. Ladybird is absolutely right about getting enough sleep. Having read everything 3 times isn't going to help you when you can't stay awake in class. You have to do what ever it takes to stay awake in class, because if you don't the profs will make your life a living hell...I speak from experience.
6. You are never safe. There is no rhyme or reason to when the profs will call on you. This isn't like your first year classes where the profs just make the rounds. Just because you got called on yesterday doesn't mean you are safe for the rest of the week. Prepare every day like you have been by the profs that you will be called on the next day.
1. I agree with what Ladybird said about getting there early. Despite what the schedule says, PC I starts at 7:45. You should probably be there no later than 7:30 (and even earlier on day 1).
2. I'll say what she was too tactful to say about the "shrapnel zone:" It doesn't matter how close you and your friends are, assess their work ethic and if you think they won't be prepared every day do NOT sit next to them...you will pay the price.
3. Along those same lines, NEVER volunteer, EVER. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I can think of several times this last PC cycle where people volunteered and it blew up in their faces.
4. I know its a widespread practice, but don't just take a former PC student's old cases and rely on the highlighting/underlining from that old student. You'll never learn the material that way and you'll pay the price when you get called on. The only way to learn is to read the cases yourself.
5. Ladybird is absolutely right about getting enough sleep. Having read everything 3 times isn't going to help you when you can't stay awake in class. You have to do what ever it takes to stay awake in class, because if you don't the profs will make your life a living hell...I speak from experience.
6. You are never safe. There is no rhyme or reason to when the profs will call on you. This isn't like your first year classes where the profs just make the rounds. Just because you got called on yesterday doesn't mean you are safe for the rest of the week. Prepare every day like you have been by the profs that you will be called on the next day.
Thought for the first day of PR:
Download and play (or edit and play part of) Season 6, Episode 108 of The Practice: "Honor Code".
Tivo commercial-free verison is only about 42 minutes for the whole show, less if you edit all but the relevant privilege issues.
Annouce 'this is, in part, what PR is about' and ask (without showing the resolution at the end), 'what would you do in this situation.'
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Download and play (or edit and play part of) Season 6, Episode 108 of The Practice: "Honor Code".
Tivo commercial-free verison is only about 42 minutes for the whole show, less if you edit all but the relevant privilege issues.
Annouce 'this is, in part, what PR is about' and ask (without showing the resolution at the end), 'what would you do in this situation.'
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