True enough on the inconsistency I guess. However, I would say that I really noticed people's advice about briefing after I had already become comfortable enough with it that I wasn't going to stop. I'll say I'm not at Vandy. After that they seem to all be pretty similar in rank and stature.
I did use supplements but not as much as I thought I would. I bought one for each class about this time last year. (I'm actually looking to sell all of them so anyone interested let me know!)I actually found that with reading and briefing pretty religiously, I very rarely was confused about something to the point that I wanted to go to the supp to "understand." There were probably a couple times in Property. But I really used them the most in prep for the finals. I used the black-letter explanations along with my class notes to make my own outlines for every class. I especially recommend E&Es and Emmanuel's Crunchtime. Both are awesome for civpro in my opinion.
As to time-budgeting, I was pretty rigid 1st semester. I had myself a sked from morning til about 5-6. (And I get up really early...to the point where I would be at school between 6:30-7am each day). Between those times I was either in class, eating lunch, or reading/studying. To be fair I was and am also obsessed with fantasy football so maybe an hour a day went to that.
As a side, if you can handle getting up early enough that you are there an hour or more before class, I would suggest it. Even if you leave the reading for that class until right then, I felt super fresh and ready to go when class started every day.
use any supplements?
how'd you budget your time? how much did you study per day?
also, doesn't it seem to be a little inconsistent to care that others think it bad practice to disclose schools, so you don't do that, but they also think it bad practice to brief the entire semester, yet you do follow that opinion?
i mean, if there is other justification (which i'm sure there is) then fine, but you could have just said that to begin with.