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Free Law School MP3s

Written by Brett McKay

Over at Top Law Student, there’s a great post about downloading free podcasts from CALI Radio. He gives several links to podcasts dealing with preparing for final exams. (My favorite was tips for multiple choice questions.) Not only do these mp3s offer great advice, they’re free.

Additionally, if you’re interested in listening to Sum and Substance or Law School Legends as part of your exam preparation, don’t fork over $60 to buy them. Most law school libraries should have these disks on reserve. Check them out and rip them to your Mp3 player. I was kind of leery of doing so because of copyright infringement, but my librarian said it was cool. Again, great review at no cost.

If you’re pressed for time and want to speed up the pace of listening to your Mp3s, Lifehacker has a great post on how to speed up Mp3s using Audacity configured with my . It took me while getting things figured out with my Ipod, but I condensed an entire Civ Pro Lecture to half the original amount of time. What’s great about it is that the tone doesn’t change, so it doesn’t sound like you’re listening to a chipmunk.

> Brett McKay | 30 Nov 06 | Free Stuff, School, Technology, Time Management | Comments (2)

Free Course Outlines

Written by Brett McKay

Finals are few weeks away. Do you have your course outline ready?

If you’re like most law students, you probably haven’t even started on it. Instead of stressing out, I suggest you look for a good commercial outline for your course.

I am NOT suggesting that you rely solely on the commercial outline for preparation. Rather, you should use it as a skeleton of how you’re going to organize your outline. You should then supplement the outline with your teacher’s notes. You should also be aware of faulty information in outlines.

Only a sucker would spend money on outlines. So, to help you all you frugal legal eagles out there prepare for exams without breaking the bank, I’ve compiled a list of resources you can use to get FREE course outlines.

> Brett McKay | 22 Nov 06 | Free Stuff, School | Comments (2)

Good Riddance Legal Writing Memo

Written by Brett McKay

After twenty revisions, I finally turned in my memo. It feels so good to get that monkey off my back. Of course, I’ll be suffering severe mood swings until I get my paper back. One minute I’ll feel like I aced it, the next I’ll think I bombed it. Law school is one giant mind game.

I’d like to take the time to thank Frugal For Life for including me in this week’s Festival of Frugality carnival. It was the first blog carnival I’ve participated in, and I was nervous that my post would be too lame for a carnival to include. I’m looking forward to participating in even more carnivals.

> Brett McKay | 21 Nov 06 | School | Comments (2)

Use Your law library

Written by Brett McKay

One of the least used resources at law school is the law library. I’m amazed at the stuff you can find in there, especially when it comes to supplements.

I’ve had many helpful 2L’s and 3L’s suggest which supplements I should buy to help me prepare for exams. The problem is that if I were to actually buy all the supplements they suggest, I would be out about $1,000. Several of my fellow 1L’s have actually gone out and bought all the hornbooks for their classes. Not frugal.

You can find all supplements at you law school library. Most of them tend to be in the library reserve. After every class, I’ll go the library and check out my favorite supplement. (Right now my favorites are Examples and Explanations and the Understanding Series by Lexis.) I’ll read the chapter on the section we just covered in class and answer any practice questions. Total cost: $0.

I plan on taking advantage of all the multiple choice practice question books that the library has on reserve while I start preparing for exams.

Lesson: Don’t buy supplements. They’re expensive and you can use them for free at your library

> Brett McKay | 10 Nov 06 | Free Stuff, Lexis, School | Comments (4)

Free Food at School

Written by Brett McKay

One of my favorite things about law school is the amount of free food floating around. When clubs have meetings they usually offer some type of food. Most times it’s pizza. However, sometimes clubs get fancy and have some really good stuff. For example, last week, one club had a taco buffet catered by some restaurant. All I have to do to get a free lunch is go the meeting. Not only do I save some money, I often get to hear some interesting guest speakers.

Even if I can’t make it to the meeting, there’s this table at our school designated for the leftover food. From this table I can usually come away with lunch and dinner without spending a dime.

I know. I sound like a bum. But if someone is going to offer free food, you would be stupid to turn it down. No shame!

Frugal Lesson: Attend club meetings. Not only can you learn some cool stuff, you get free food.

> Brett McKay | 08 Nov 06 | Food, Free Stuff, School | Comments (4)

Chat on How to Make Law School Affordable

Written by Brett McKay

From Newsweek:

At prices ranging from $60,000 to $120,000 and beyond, a law school education isn’t cheap. Jeffrey E. Hanson, Ph.D., the Director of Borrower Education Services at the nonprofit student loan organization Access Group, will take your questions on how to afford law school–education loans, debt management and more–in a Live Talk on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1 PM ET

Here’s the link. Check it out.

> Brett McKay | 07 Nov 06 | Debt, School, Student Loans | Comments (0)
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