Dissing My Classmates

Any time I fret about where I'll land in the class rankings, I take comfort in this fact: about a third of the class isn't really trying. Almost every day a professor calls on someone and the student makes a disastrous attempt to read and understand the case while the class watches and waits. It's cringe-inducing. I may find myself eating these words in a couple of months, but anyone who isn't in the top half of the class probably isn't working very hard.