It's like a game!

You know how when you were a little kid, the grownups would try to trick you into thinking that chores were actually fun by trying to disguise it as a game? Like pretending that the toy chest was a crocodile, and you were feeding it toys to keep it from getting too hungry and eating you.

Even as a kid that always seemed a little fishy. I'd still go with it, because either way I have to pick up my stuff, so you may as well go with crocodiles.

I'm trying to use that same make it a game! strategy in my wills, trusts and estates class. Because my oh my is that class dull. I don't particularly care about the subject, it deals with enough property that I keep have traumatic flashbacks to last year's class that shall not be named and the monotone, memorized lectures don't really help. However, the memorized lectures do create one spot of sunshine. Throughout the years the script she uses and repeats word for word has been largely transcribed, and sent about to help fellow students. I feel that these scripts may be the key key to my sanity and survival in this class. Every now and again I bemoan my poor study habits and pretend that if I would have actually studied in undergrad I could be in Harvard right now, but I love that most of the other law students here are genuinely sweet and helpful. I already had the scripts from a friend, but I just mentioned taking this class to a person I just met, and she offered to send me the scripts. Law students may universally be a little obsessive, obnoxious and type A (myself included) but I'm just glad I managed to spend 3 years with helpful, non-back stabey people who channel that obsessiveness into awesome class savers.

Anyways, I'm trying really hard to somehow use the scripts to make my own little puzzle game. Something where I get a secret thrill from trying to race against the professor and piece together the lecture from the two scripts in the nick of time before she actually says the words. Not exactly the next game craze to sweep the nation, but it's all I have to cling too. I'm actually not really sure if it helps me learn the material any better. Actually, I think I spend more time copying and pasting, feeling smug about secretly knowing the answer to every question and other wise playing with the scripts than actually learning the material. But I did not spend the entire class period roaming the internet, so the way I see it this is a step in the right direction.