Crunch Time

I have a midterm today in my criminal law class. Despite the fact that I am very interested in becoming a criminal prosecutor this class has been unable to hold my interest. Not paying attention for most of the semester might catch up with me, but thankfully I have the law school life-raft known as CrunchTime.

There are a lot of pre-prepared outlines available in just about any class for law students. This vary from books that offer examples and explanations on any course subject to full out outlines of a given class. Emanuel is one of the top publishers of study resources for students and has sever different products. At the beginning of the summer before my first year I bought a few hornbooks (as these supplemental volumes are often called) in the hopes that I would get far ahead in my course reading over the summer and come to school more prepared than any of my other classmates. This goal proved to be unrealistic and the hornbooks sat in my room unopened until finals. During my first finals period I opened the hornbooks for the first time and was a bit overwhelmed. The outlines for any given course cover much more than any teacher could possibly teach in 1 semester. I filled my head facts that were completely irrelevant to the entry level courses I was taking and as a result probably did worse.

This semester I bought a CrunchTime book, the kind I had seen my fellow students using before the finals. It is much thinner than the other books, includes less information which I believe makes it more useful. I just opened my Criminal law CrunchTime two day ago and was shocked at the ease with which it taught me all the things my teacher has been trying to get inside my brain for weeks. The CrunchTime included flow charts to help distinguish between different crimes of the same general type and sever practice questions. It also includes a list of places where law profs. often try to trip students up.

I don't know how I survived first semester without any of the CrunchTime books, but I can assure you I intend to purchase a full arsenal of CrunchTimes to supplement the remainder of my legal education.