A lot of good my freakin ticket did me...

I got called on today in the class with the magic outline. One might think that this would be a good thing, having the golden ticket and all. But I got the one case in the whole freakin book that is not covered by the Outline. This book is a new edition, and apparently this particular case is not covered by the old editions.

Fortunately, I am a goody-goody and had read the case rather than depending on the Outline. Unfortunately, the prof is so accustomed to student magically spewing word for word what he wants to hear that he gets a little irritated when we don't. Here is how my day went...

"Ms. LC, can you tell us about Case?" I run down the facts, including that this is a habeas case, so P must have been in prison.

"Ms. LC, where is P" Umm, yeah--in prison 'cause this is a habeas case.

"Ms. LC, what did the Supremes do?" Dismissed, had no jurisdiction.

"Why no jurisdiction?" Congress can giveth and Congress can taketh away.

"Why can Congress take jurisdiction" Uhhhh, Article 3. At this point he looks at me like I am a complete moron.

"Where in Art. 3?" I dunno. He continues to stare at me like I am a moron, before finally getting the hint that I mean it when I say I don't know. Then he turns on the guy next to me (Mr H.). Mr. H also doesn't know, but manages to stall until he gets a helpful IM. Oh, duh. The Exceptions and Regulations clause. Why didn't I think of that? Prof goes on for a bit.

"Mr. H, where do we get statutes" Mr. H: I dunno.

"Ms. LC?" Uh, Congress passes them? I get the "well, duh, you're a moron look" again, and he moves to the guy on the other side of me who also cannot produce the exact answer prof wants, so prof rolls his eyes at all of us and gives some long nonsensical answer that I could not reproduce if my life depended on it.

Fortunately, the guy next to me asks a question that runs down the clock and gets us all off the hook.

I don't know what is up this semester. I have been called on in every class. Last semester I was called on once in all of my classes combined. Oh well, most of my profs are a bit more reasonable than this one. This felt like a reenactment of first year. ( Then again, this is a first year class, b/c I transferred the schedules between the two schools worked out so that I am taking a first year core class in the second semester of my second year. )