Comments on: Welcome to Law School, Part III

By: Letters of Marque

Letters of Marque — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:23:17 +0000

Someone else’s advice, and then my not-advice
Via Blawg Wisdom, I find that Professor Michael Madison also gives advice — no quotation marks needed! — for law school. I think it sounds great, some more great than others. Like, get exercise and write. If you’re not sure…

By: Blawg Wisdom

Blawg Wisdom — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:30:44 +0000

Pre-law advice from a law prof
Prof. Michael Madison of madisonian theory has a series of posts for the pre-law students among us. The most current post is Welcome to Law School, Part VII, covering grades. The first six are absolutely worth reading, too: Part I:…

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:03:49 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation for musicians to read Hofstader’s GEB… but I think anyone interested in formal systems, incompleteness, and just fun reading should also read the book! I originally picked it up because I’m a computer science type that heard about it from a prof. But I’m also a musician, so I was excited to be reading about Bach… Thanks again for all the advice!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:08:35 +0000

A few other good science books would be The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski, and Invention by Design by Henry Petroski. Petroski tends to focus more from a civil engineering perspective, and Brian Greene’s book deals mostly with physics/string theory.

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:51:41 +0000

Thank you for the advice–I’ll be checking back for more installments. I’m very interested to hear what a law professor thinks I need to know/do before arriving there the first day. Thanks for your insight.