Friday, May 06, 2005

Tabs

Have you ever noticed how some people go way overboard when it comes to tabbing the statutory supplement they are allowed to bring to the exam? I'm talking about the person who not only has the side of the book completely filled with tabs, but the top and bottom as well. This sort of tabbing is a labor of love, as each section is color-coded both by type of statute and also by importance of the statute. This person must have spent hours doing it, and then must spend several hours more just studying the tabs so they can find things quickly and efficiently. After all, it isn't as if these supplements come with a table of contents to tell you where individual sections are...

The tragic part is that after the exam, this carefully tabbed supplement will be thrown onto some shelf, never to be opened again. Future civilizations may find this tabbed supplements and praise the organizing genius of the ancient "Case Western Reservians." The rest of us will just remember you as the guy who spilled iced tea all over his lap on the first day of orientation.