Wanted: Someone to watch over me

The law blog De Novo reports on the following advertisement, from a student at NYU:

I’m a first year law student but I’ve been having terrible concentration problems. I need someone to sit with me while I study and make sure that I’m studying. Otherwise I’ll waste hours surfing the internet or just thinking about random things. You can be reading the newspaper or doing your own work while you do this, you just need to be sitting at a starbucks table or other location with me. You DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LAW SCHOOL to do this job.

I’ll pay more for people that can tutor me in Civil Procedure, Contracts, or Torts.

We’re told that this is, in fact, a useful approach for students who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder.  The presence of another person can allow the ADD-affected student to concentrate much more effectively.