Article January 22, 1979 Issue

Getting involved with your education

DIANE LA TRELLE DOUGLAS

Learning is not passive.

Even if you have always looked on the learning process as something like the absorbing action of a sponge, you can start right now getting more actively and meaningfully involved in your education.

I discovered this my first year of law school. One of the required courses was Civil Procedure. This course treated in some depth the procedural matters of a civil lawsuit—such as the proper state and court in which to bring the suit, the correct form and necessary elements of the complaint, whether additional parties can be joined in the same lawsuit, and so on. Because it seemed that the subject matter dealt with formalities rather than concepts of interest to me, I was dreading having to take the class. It would undoubtedly be boring. And that's exactly how it turned out! To make matters worse, it was my first class in the morning, and staying alert was a struggle.

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