Selecting Courses

• Author: Ramsey All/Daniel Batista/Koker Christensen/Ian Cooper
• Pages: 131-143

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Selecting

COURSES

I

t's

the

first

day

back

from

summer break.

The law

school cafete-

ria

is

buzzing

with

nervous energy

and the

sound

of

cheerful

greetings. Refreshed, students

are

ready

to

embark

on

another

semester

of law

school.

The

previous year's results

are now

unalter-

able

history

and

Andie,

Billie,

and

Charlie

can

look forward

to a

clean

start,

with

new

courses

and new

professors.

The

questions that

face

our

three friends

are

"which

courses?"

and

"which

professors?"

We

have seen

how

Andie approaches

her

classes,

how she

studies

for

and

writes exams,

and how she

writes papers.

With

respect

to

these activities, Andie

has a

dominant strategy over Billie

and

Char-

lie.

The

dominance

of

Andie

s

strategy doesn't

end

there:

it

extends

to

every

facet

of the law

school experience, including planning

the

semester.

To see how

this

is so,

consider

the

kinds

of

considerations

that

go

into

planning

the

semester

of her two

foils.

Charlie:

Hey

Billie,

good

to see ya.

How'd

last

semester

go?

Billie:

All

right

I

suppose.

Thought

I

might have done better

in

Trusts.

I

knew that course cold

and

filled

five

booklets

on

the

exam. Must have missed something. Anyway,

do you

have

your courses sorted

out

yet?

Charlie: Yep.

My

buddy just

got a new

snowmobile

up at his

cot-

tage

so I fixed it so

that

I

don't

have

any

classes

on

Friday

and

Monday.

I

don't

know

anyone

in my

classes

and my

exam schedule

is

brutal,

but

I'll

worry

about that

when

the

time comes.

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