Mina makes a good point: "do you mean "do better" only in terms of grades? quality/amount of knowledge gained? overall experience (including social life)? or all of the above?"
I was going to respond: "I wanted to discover how we could be altruistic to these persons, assuming that we can't know why they came to law school."
But that's really stupid.
Okay, new rule: when you answer the question, state what you think that the person you love wants out of law school -- and for best effect, make that equal to the thing you wanted out of law school.

I sometimes feel that linear comments interrupt dialog. Thus, multiple comment boxes. Perhaps to correlate with multiple suggestions?

-- AndrewGradman - 24 Apr 2008

Get hold of secondary sources: i.e., data that a person has interpreted and reduced. (Is the quality of the secondary source then a function of the quality of the reducer? Infinite regress? -- no. Think about it.)

In other words, don't rely on casebooks and lectures for your learning. Rely on "outlines" of your professor's class, and "case-briefs" of your professor's casebook, that other students have put together. Your goal is to accumulate and collate the outlines, using the skill described in the previous paragraph.

I plan to elaborate on this more soon. Sorry to disappoint.

-- AndrewGradman - 24 Apr 2008