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Use Your College Facilities

Written by The Frugal Law Student

Over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, there’s a post on using facilities at your college to save money. All the suggestions are great. I think it’s amazing how little students take advantage of some of the things their universities provide. Instead of checking out books from the library, they buy their books from Borders. Not frugal.

> The Frugal Law Student | 04 Nov 06 | Free Stuff, Saving, School | Comment (1)

Daily Report

Written by Brett McKay

Received a reimbursement check in the mail today from our insurance company for $21.36. Also, Mrs. Frugal Law Student’s grandma sent us $30 just because.

Today was grocery day. The bill was a little more expensive than usual because we’re having guests over for dinner tomorrow night. Total was $76.

Lately, I’ve been having trouble limiting the amount of time I spend blogging. I check my hit meter compulsively and spend every five minutes looking at bloglines.com. I’m worried that my blogging addiction might have adverse effects on my first semester 1L grades.

I took my concern to Legal Andrew, and he was nice enough to write up a post on how to curb your blogging addiction during finals time. Check it out!

> Brett McKay | 02 Nov 06 | Food, Progress, School | Comments (0)

1L Job search

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Over on Nuts and Boalts a discussion is going on about the job opportunities for 1L’s. Check it out.

> The Frugal Law Student | 31 Oct 06 | Job Search, School | Comment (1)

Report for the Day

Written by The Frugal Law Student

The day is over. School went well. Time to give my report.

I’m happy to say that my wife and I spent no money today.

More good news. Mrs. Frugal Law Student might be getting another job at the community college. So, that should increase our income and help pay off loans.

> The Frugal Law Student | 30 Oct 06 | Progress, School | Comments (0)

Great Study Tip

Written by The Frugal Law Student

Chris from Chris’ Blog put has a great post on teaching others to help you learn. This is a great idea. I try to explain to my wife all that I learned in class on the way back. I figure if I can explain proximate cause or the parol evidence rule in a way that she can understand it, then that means I have a pretty good grasp of the material.

Another thing that I do is review my outline each week out loud like I were giving a lecture. I shut the door and start jabbering away. This seems to have helped as well.

> The Frugal Law Student | 30 Oct 06 | School | Comment (1)

What are my professors thinking?

Written by The Frugal Law Student

I found this post on figuring your teacher out by Gregory Wells Bowman, an assistant law professor at Mississippi College of Law.

Overall great advice. I particularly liked how he pointed out that figuring your teachers out not only helps do well come exam time, but it’s also training for your career outside of law school.

But more importantly, as lawyers-in-training you are entering a service profession in which your success–and hence your livelihood–will be based in part on your ability to figure out what your clients and supervising attorneys want. And while some of those people will be really easy or pleasant to work for, many others will be confusing, or difficult, or challenging in some way. But you still have to work for them, don’t you?

Great stuff. For that Professor Bowman, you’re going on my link list.

> The Frugal Law Student | 30 Oct 06 | School | Comments (0)
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