Shit, one of the named partners called me out of a meeting with a client to come to his office. I was trying to decide how I'd tell my wife I'd been fired and whether or not I should just keep getting up and going to "work," aka the park to feed pigeons.
Luckily it was good news.
I never used those flash cards. Here's my method of studying: I'd read the assigned material. If I didn't understand it, I'd look it up in a commercial outline keyed to the textbook to flesh out the parts I didn't understand, but I "always" read the material first. Then I would either take the syllabus and turn that into a skeleton for my outline, or, if the professor was going pretty straight forward through the text, I'd take the table of contents and use that. About 1.5-2 months before the final, I started putting together my outline from my class notes, hanging them from the skeleton I'd drafted earlier. Once my outlines were finished (or up to date to that point of the year), I would read them every couple of days and gradually strip the outline of details that I knew and could repeat until I ended up with only a skeleton outline again.
Does that make sense?
