The students I admire most in law school are the ones that are able to go right through their homework. My biggest achilles heel when studying is procrastination. I know other students suffer from the same problem. I think the best cure is just to attack your assignments head on and not try to ease into them. For example, just take a 4 hour block of time and tell yourself for the next four hours I’m studying evidence.
Studying in concentrated blocks of time improves efficiency and helps you retain the information better. If you’re fragmenting off bits of time for breaks, talking, Internet, etc. then you won’t retain the information as well and it won’t strongly connect to other parts of the subject area. Also, fragmenting usually ends up taking much longer than had you just run through the material straight.
Sit at an empty table, grab a water and a snack and start studying.
Would you consider discussing or linking to a blog about a second-year law student’s search for summer legal clerkship. Warning to some. Consolation to others. Generally informative.
http://kdwestphal.blogspot.com
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.