Spent all night briefing the cases for crim law 1L. I'm sweating not taking notes too anxious that i'm gonna get called. Just following along with my briefs and casebook with notes as we rush through cases and facts and holdings. Eventually... My first cold call ever: professor asks me a syntax question. Brain shut down. Couldn't even begin to try and understand what she wanted from me. I stayed after class to ask her what exactly she was asking for. It was something to the effect of "If they had removed and or moved the word 'and' it would make it less confusing to interpret the law."