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Photographic Memory

Somebody shake me, please:

But of all the students I have polled who are in the top 5% - they all claim to have a photographic memory. Maybe they do not actually have photographic memories; perhaps their claim is only a sign of their inflated egos and over-confidence, and thus their belief that they possess everything. Who knows.

I don’t buy it. A photographic memory is a nice theory, but the odds of 5% of law students having a photographic memory is pretty low. As Wikipedia tells us, true photographic memory can often be confused with a real good memory.

I think the raw talent portion of astronomical law school success has more to do with reading speed and recall than the ability to photograph those pages. If House were a great law student, his attention to detail would be helpful, but his ability to make those synaptic leaps would make him a juggernaut.

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3) Study rooms are not soundproof booths. Less shrieking, less screeching, less squee. Many of you have not yet figured out that you are staring down the barrel of a buttload of work, and that you would do well to use less time gossiping.
Laughing on study room etiquette
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Make sure the reading you spend ALL DAY doing is ACTUALLY the reading you’re SUPPOSED to be doing.
Mariel with sage advice on studying
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The downside is that reciting information from memory is slightly more verbose than a tightly-worded issue statement in a brief.
TDot on briefing from memory. You would be shocked how effective talking to yourself is as a law school study practice.
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Who cares if the kid next to you wrote five briefs of every case and puts everything on note-cards for back-up? Who cares that the kid next to him didn’t do anything? Mosey on along your merry way, and do what helps you best retain the information.
Mariel on worrying about yourself