PMBR CD's: Officially Useless

I popped in the first Con Law PMBR CD as I drove to Target tonight. Why am I ditching out on my studying to go to Target you may ask? Because I have an interview in DC on Monday and I had a nightmare last night that because I was so wrapped up in studying for the Bar I showed up without copies of my revised resume, without a transcript, and without a writing sample. The transcripts came in the mail on Wednesday, so those are all set. However, I ran out of printer paper about a month ago so I had to go buy some at Target.

Note to PMBR: could you find some lecturers whose voices don't make me want to escape from the car because the nasalness - oh the nasalness! - hurts my ears?

In the 40 minute trip to and from Target, I decided that the PMBR CD's are useless at this point. I have also listened to Property and Contracts, but really haven't found them helpful because it's all passive learning. I'm not taking notes on them because I already have a big pile of Barbri notes, thank you, so am I supposed to be learning by osmosis, or what? I find I remember the hypos because they're funny, especially the Contracts ones, but I don't really remember the lesson I was supposed to learn from them.

I've been studying Con Law today and in the first 15 minutes of the CD, the guy lectured on some issues in a completely different order and then added some peripheral items that are not in my flashcards and that I am just not going to worry about at this point. So basically, he's confusing me and making me panic. Yeah, that's doing me a lot of good.

So what have I gotten for the $325 I paid to PMBR? CD's that I have only marginally used and have now determined will only confuse me, a 3-day class I am going to miss because I wound up getting an unexpected interview, and two big mother books of questions that tend to make me angry, especially when the answer they want cites a case and explains that the only possible way I could have known the correct answer was because OF COURSE I know this obscure case from the 7th Circuit. Other than Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and MAYBE Plyler v. Doe, I do not plan to know any cases for this test. I have appreciated having the PMBR questions, overall, but those are not worth $325, in my opinion.

I have sent all my loved ones an Exculpatory Email (yes, that was the subject line. I am a law geek) explaining that I do love them, but they may or may not hear from me until after the 28th.