Class nuggets

A word about grades — I got my last one today — and then I'll be done. I can only speak for myself, but it seems that the quality of my grades are disproportionate to the amount of studying I did for each class. There is an exhausting list of possible reasons for this, of course, which I do not care to go into here. Suffice it to say that, like most law students, I am more pleased with some grades than others. We were all straight-A students once upon a time. Not anymore.

A few friends and I have made an observation about a tendency of at least two professors here, and perhaps more. An odd thing often happens when one of these professors calls on someone and that person gives what seems to be the right answer. The professor acts as if a wrong answer has been given, often moving on to another student or returning to the lecture, ostensibly to educate us further on the point. Then, a few moments or even half an hour later, it happens: the right answer, the one we've been searching for, was precisely what the first student said! I'm calling this the Prematurely Correct Paradox, because like all good paradoxes, the first student's "prematurely correct" answer leads to a logically incomprehensible result — the professor says "No, not what I was looking for," only to arrive at the same place later on. Weird.

Library labs for Legal Skills start tomorrow. Advocate layout is Sunday afternoon. The first round of job bidding, through Career Services, ends Sunday. Moot Court tryouts begin Tuesday. Our first mini-memos of the semester, also for Skills, are due next Thursday. Thank goodness Professor Van Alstyne is so entertaining, or law school might get pedestrian.