Okay class of 2007. You want to know how it feels? It feels like there was once a clean, crisp picture of contract law. Then someone cut that picture into tiny, irregular pieces and spent the last nine months flinging the pieces at us, one by one, in no particular order. Some we caught, some we didn't. Now it's up to us to put those pieces together. How do we do that?
Imagine that those pieces we're holding is a jigsaw puzzle. Now imagine that our commercial study aid is the picture on the box that the puzzle came in. We take each little piece and hold it up to the picture, trying to figure out where it goes in our outline. We spend days -- weeks -- doing this. And all we get in the end is a shitty half-picture -- one whose lines don't quite match up and that gapes with holes.
There has got to be a better way to teach the law.
