Slightly more sane the past three days. Reading has been relatively light and comprehensible this week.

I still don't get why they teach us the way they do, which is to give us cases and then expect us to wring the precepts of law out of them. Well, I get that they're trying to teach us how to think. But it would be a lot easier if they provided us a roadmap first, especially considering that the vast, vast majority are not going to be out there creating brilliant new theories of law or whatever. We're just going to be applying what law there is. It seems silly to force all of us to do what is really academic thinking when 99 percent are not interested in becoming scholars. (Not to mention the Socratic method, which requires you to think on your feet a la trial attorneys, when most of the class will never try a case.)

It's annoying that reading the assigned material is the least efficient way to study.